Thread by @tylermorganwall

1/5 THE LONG WAIT IS OVER! I'm happy to announce the release of rayshader with 3D ggplots. Pull up your favorite ggplot viz and throw it into the new plot_gg() function, and watch rayshader transform it into 3D. #rstats #rayshader #dataviz

Blog post:
tylermw.com/3d-ggplots-wit…

2/5 You can install the package from the Github page:

remotes::install_github("tylermorganwall/rayshader")
github.com/tylermorganwal…

Since ggplot2 is an incredibly complex package, there will certainly be bugs--if something renders oddly, leave an issue on the Github page.

3/5 Part of the reason it took so long was I wanted to a dead simple interface for 3D plots. No complex interfaces or APIs to learn-it's one line of code to transform your plot into 3D.

Check out the documentation and examples at the pkgdown website:

rayshader.com

4/5 And finally, I'd love to see what you come up with! Try out the new render_movie() feature to generate beautifully smooth mp4 files to share. Bad viz, good viz-doesn't matter, just play and make something fun!

(And be sure to include both the #rstats and #rayshader hashtags)

5/5 Other discussions:

Reddit:
reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…

Hacker News:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=202733…

6/5 Website is down for now (don't know why yet), but go to rayshader.com and follow along with the README or check out the documentation for plot_gg() under the functions link to get started!

AND IT'S BACK UP!