Hi fellow R nerds!
Here's the TL:DR: I'm a longtime R/tidyverse user who recently went down the rabbit hole on data visualization best practices. I put together a website that catalogues what I found out: Great Graphs.
I quickly realized that getting my own graphs to where I now wanted them design-wise in base ggplot2 took an awful lot of custom code, so I started trying to build tools that would do that design and customization work for me (for the most part).
As the tools grew in number and complexity, I thought it might be prudent to bundle them into a package I'm calling ggplot.plus: MAISRC/ggplot_plus: Package home for ggplot_plus
The 30 second version is that the package is meant to be a systematic, opinionated, Universal-Design-oriented revamp of the default design choices ggplot2 makes. You can flip through the graphs in this guide if you want to get a taste: Guide to the ggplot.plus Package.
I'm proud of what I've been able to put together, but I am not a programmer by training, and, under the hood, ggplot2 is very complicated from my perspective! Plus, this is my first attempt at building anything approaching the scale of a "real package."
As such, I'm sure my codebase is suboptimal, buggy, and hacky in many places. However, I'd really like to make this package "good enough to ship" and put on CRAN in case it's helpful or interesting to anyone else.
As such, I would really love to find some contributors/collaborators to help me polish the code. Bonus points if they have experience working with ggplot2. Bug testers and issue makers would also be welcome; please help me discover all the many ways I'm sure my code breaks! I'd take all the help I can get.
Thanks in advance!