Very exited to share that our work showing the importance of SOX2 pioneer activity for gene activation has now been published in The EMBO Journal. Excellent work from MichEla and Teun van den Brand. And a nice collaboration with James Davies (+lab). embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

📢We are very excited to announce the second edition of the Dutch Embryo Model Meeting #DEMM24 Are you working with embryo models such as 2D/3D #gastruloids or #blastoids? Join our meeting and submit an abstract! oncodeinstitute.nl/events/dutch-e…… Oncode Institute

ggplot2 3.5.0 is on it's way to CRAN 🎉🎉🎉 This is a big one and is in large part the work of Teun van den Brand. The new features will be spread out over several blog posts, starting with this: tidyverse.org/blog/2024/02/g…

One of the big improvements in the new version of #ggplot2 are related to legends. Teun van den Brand lays out all the detail in this blog post. Get ready for the legend extension extravaganza #rstats tidyverse.org/blog/2024/02/g…

We are not done with the #ggplot2 release announcements. Axes are just another type of legend and they have gotten a lot of love in 3.5.0 as well! This blog post takes you through the news. #rstats tidyverse.org/blog/2024/02/g…

Wrapping up the week is our last #ggplot2 release post, and have we got something great for you? Meet a whole new coordinate system! A super-charged successor to coord_polar() with as many bells and whistles as you could possibly imagine! #rstats tidyverse.org/blog/2024/03/g…

I am super excited to announce the first release of marquee - supercharged markdown support for #ggplot2 (and #rstats graphics in general) Read all about it here: tidyverse.org/blog/2024/05/m… and browse the package site at: marquee.r-lib.org

Finally, beautiful arrows in #ggplot #rstats (I cringe whenever I have to draw arrows in base R) teunbrand.github.io/ggarrow/

Tables are about to get a whole lotta love in patchwork #rstats

I'm excited to share the next version of patchwork with the world, available on CRAN now. First class support for gt tables and even more freedom with `free()` tidyverse.org/blog/2024/09/p…

🎉🎉🎉Excited to share: 'Easy geom recipes' is online! It's an uber-accessible point of entry to #ggplot2 Stat extension - a mechanism that can make plot syntax fluid for domains not handled by base ggplot2. Try out Recipe #1 today! #rstats #dataviz evamaerey.github.io/easy-geom-reci…

The ggh4x package is an extension for ggplot2 that enhances the flexibility of creating complex and customizable visualizations. It adds extra functionality, allowing users to build more sophisticated plots with less effort. Opportunities and advantages of using ggh4x include:

The brand new `legendry` package by Teun van den Brand takes ggplot2 guides to the next level teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_blog…

The ggh4x package is an extension for ggplot2 that enhances the flexibility of creating complex and customizable visualizations. It adds extra functionality, allowing users to build more sophisticated plots with less effort. Opportunities and advantages of using ggh4x include:

Struggling with messy legends in your plots? The legendry package for ggplot2 helps you create cleaner and more effective visualizations in R. With better control over legends, it makes your plots easier to understand. Here’s why legendry is a game-changer: ✔️ Customizable

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major hashtag #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release here: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09/g…