[R-pkgs] [ANN] ggplot2 version 0.8.3

[hadley wickham]

ggplot2 ------------------------------------------------------------

ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics,
which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice graphics and
avoid bad parts. It takes care of many of the fiddly details
that make plotting a hassle (like drawing legends) as well as
providing a powerful model of graphics that makes it easy to produce
complex multi-layered graphics.

To install or update, run:
install.packages(c("ggplot2", "plyr"))

Find out more at http://had.co.nz/ggplot2, and check out the nearly 500
examples of ggplot in use.  If you're interested, you can also sign up to
the ggplot2 mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/ggplot2, or track
development at  http://github.com/hadley/ggplot2

ggplot2 0.8.3  (2008-04-20)
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New features

* alpha: new aesthetic, with scale alpha.  Where a geom has both fill
and colour, alpha affects the fill.
* annotate: new annotate function to make it easier to add annotations to plots
* facet_grid now takes strip label function from parameter labeller,
not theme setting
* facet_grid: gains as.table argument to control direction of horizontal facets
* fortify: full set of methods for turning data from the sp package
into data frames that can be plotted with ggplot2
* geom_errorbarh: new geom for horizontal error bars
* labels_parsed and labels_bquote functions to make it easier to
display expressions on facet labels
* scale_manual now supports breaks and limits
* subset: experimental new feature.  Layers now have a subset
argument, which takes subsets formatted like .(var1 < 5, var2 == 3)
etc.
* xlim and ylim now work recognise Date and POSIXct classes to create
date and date_time scales respectively

Dealing with missing values

* facet_wrap: add drop argument to control whether or not panels for
non-existent combinations of facetting variables should be dropped or
not.  Defaults to TRUE
* scale_discrete: empty factor levels will be preserved, unless drop = TRUE

Bug fixes

* added presidents dataset from book to package
* American spelling of color accepted in as geom parameter, and all
colour scales have alias spelled color (e.g. scale_color_hue)
* facet_wrap: contents guaranteed to be clipped to panel
* facet_wrap: corrected labelling when facetting by multiple variables
(thank to Charlotte Wickham for a clear test case)
* geom_histogram now works with negative weights (provided position =
"identity").  This is useful for creating back to back histograms.
* geom_step: improve legend
* geom_text: better legend
* geom_vline, geom_hline, geom_abline: should work in yet more situations
* resolution: fixed bug in computation of resolution that lead to
(e.g.) incorrect boxplot widths when there was only a single x value
in a group.
* position_stack: fixed bug in detection of overlap for very large bins
* scale_discrete: factor levels no longer mistakenly reordered
* scale_hue: now spans full range of hue if it less than 360 degrees
* scale_hue: rotated default hue range by 15 degrees to avoid
unfortunate red-green contrast in two colour case
* show now works with ggplot objects
* stat_sum: fixed bug which resulted in dropped aesthetics
* stat_summary: now warns when dropping records with missing values
* stat_summary: should be a little faster
* stat_summary: correctly passes ... arguments on fun.data
* theme_bw: corrected justification of axis.text.y
* trans: bug fixes to logistic transformation
* order aesthetic should work again

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