lwplot

This is an experimental fork of ggplot2 which aims to explore if we can make it part of the tinyverse.

What's with the name?

LW can stand for lighter-weight but also Leland Wilkinson of Grammar of Graphics fame.

Which Version ?

We started off ggplot2 2.1.0 which still had somewhat moderate dependencies:

Depends: R (>= 3.1)
Imports: digest, grid, gtable (>= 0.1.1), MASS, plyr (>= 1.7.1),
        reshape2, scales (>= 0.3.0), stats

Version 2.2.0 introduced the tibble and lazyeval:

Depends: R (>= 3.1)
Imports: digest, grid, gtable (>= 0.1.1), MASS, plyr (>= 1.7.1),
        reshape2, scales (>= 0.4.1), stats, tibble, lazyeval

Version 3.0.0 adds rlang, mgcv, viridisLite, withr:

Depends: R (>= 3.1)
Imports: digest, grid, gtable (>= 0.1.1), lazyeval, MASS, mgcv, plyr
        (>= 1.7.1), reshape2, rlang, scales (>= 0.5.0), stats, tibble,
        viridisLite, withr (>= 2.0.0)

Maybe we can stay at what 2.1.0 and even remove plyr and reshape2 by introducing data.table.

Status ?

Not bad. After some minimal changes, it passes R CMD check as lwplot.

And following some initial work, reshape2 is gone. plyr is still in, and removing it will be quite some work.

Who ?

Dirk Eddelbuettel for this.

Hadley Wickham and many collaborators for the underlying ggplot2 2.1.0.

License

GPL-2 as before

Anything else ?

Please don't distribute this yet.