Thread by @TeunvandenBrand

@dr_allancameron and I are thrilled that the #rstats package {geomtextpath}, a #ggplot2 extension, that we've been rearing over the past few months has landed on CRAN 📢! We loved that there was engagement during development, so a few of our favourites in the 🧵⬇️

Allan and I both answer ggplot2 questions on SO a bit, so it was no coincidence that we were intrigued by the same question that sparked the package
stackoverflow.com/q/69867669/113…

Early on when we just got it working in principle, there was already a blogpost out that put us *on the right path*:

https://twitter.com/joey_stan/status/1472241747631636488?s=20

If your thesis' structure is too linear for your advisor's liking, why not remedy that and putting it on the latest datavis trend: a spiral!

https://twitter.com/nrennie35/status/1478343453582974981?s=20

Bummed out by another lockdown? Unable to visit France this year? Hopefully these regions of France can cheer you up! (Disclaimer: they are only text paths when they are from the right region of France)

https://twitter.com/humeursdevictor/status/1480150303735533570?s=20

When you've grown tired of horizontal labels on your polar plot, you can now place the labels on the outer circle!

https://twitter.com/dr_xeo/status/1480511435105095682?s=20

This creative example shows nicely that you can likely omit a legend item by directly labelling your line plots:

https://twitter.com/hhsievertsen/status/1482792319225151498?s=20

Near and dear to my heart are honeybees 🐝! I used to have some hives myself, so this combined some of my favourite things

https://twitter.com/TamayoLeiva_J/status/1481711300325613576?s=20

Speaking about cross-pollination, it was great to see people already combining the package with others in ggplot2's ecosystem, such as {ggridges}:

https://twitter.com/michistoelzle/status/1482837882201124864?s=20

Also {ggfx}'s `with_outer_glow()` can be combined to give the appearance of outlines, or shadow text!

Thanks to @thomasp85's excellent work on modernising text display in R in {textshaping}, it was relatively easy for us to incorporate RtL and BiDi support:

tidyverse.org/blog/2021/02/m…

https://twitter.com/ArielKarlinsky/status/1482614906042081280?s=20

Also a big thanks to @ClausWilke for pioneering {gridtext} and allowing us to borrow some of his functions for parsing rich text!

Want to know more? Browse through the examples of the readme or skim the vignettes here:
allancameron.github.io/geomtextpath/