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Comparison · Infra & APIs
ggalign vs standardlastprofile
A side-by-side editorial comparison of ggalign and standardlastprofile — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
ggalign vs standardlastprofile: at a glance
What is ggalign?
Composable aligned layouts, rebuilt on S7 while ggplot2 4.0 lands underneath.
ggalign composes multiple ggplots against a shared observation ordering, covering heatmap annotation, oncoplots, phylogenies and circular layouts. Releases have come roughly monthly through 2025, first completing the layout system, then migrating the internals to S7 and absorbing the ggplot2 4.0 changes. The alignment machinery is now exported for other packages to build on.
What is standardlastprofile?
A German electricity load-profile package added gas and doubled the market it serves.
standardlastprofile implements the BDEW standard load profiles that German utilities use to assign consumption to customers without interval metering. Until June it did electricity only. Version 2.0.0 added the gas side — the SigLinDe synthetic procedure across all 15 BDEW gas profile IDs — and gave electricity a new primary interface, slp_electricity(), with slp_generate() superseded but retained.
ggalign vs standardlastprofile: editorial side-by-side
ggalign
0.0INFRA · APIS
Composable aligned layouts, rebuilt on S7 while ggplot2 4.0 lands underneath.
◆ Current state
ggalign composes multiple ggplots against a shared observation ordering, covering heatmap annotation, oncoplots, phylogenies and circular layouts. Releases have come roughly monthly through 2025, first completing the layout system, then migrating the internals to S7 and absorbing the ggplot2 4.0 changes. The alignment machinery is now exported for other packages to build on.
◆ Where it's heading
Two threads run in parallel. One widens what can be aligned, with sector facets, ideograms, image point shapes and observation linking. The other keeps rebuilding the foundation, with the S7 migration, repeated renames toward consistent naming, and the deliberate handing of element_polygon() and element_curve() upstream to ggplot2. The renaming is aggressive enough that each recent release soft-deprecates something.
◆ Prediction
With the internals on S7 and the Patch object exported, the next step is most likely stabilising those names rather than another refactor.
standardlastprofile
0.0INFRA · APIS
A German electricity load-profile package added gas and doubled the market it serves.
◆ Current state
standardlastprofile implements the BDEW standard load profiles that German utilities use to assign consumption to customers without interval metering. Until June it did electricity only. Version 2.0.0 added the gas side — the SigLinDe synthetic procedure across all 15 BDEW gas profile IDs — and gave electricity a new primary interface, slp_electricity(), with slp_generate() superseded but retained.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is converting from a dataset wrapper into a calculation library. Electricity profiles are tabulated values the package ships; gas profiles are computed from daily temperatures and a customer value through a coefficient-driven function, and the maintainer exposed the whole ladder — slp_gas() for the profile, slp_gas_kundenwert() to derive the customer value from a reference year, slp_gas_siglinde() for the raw h(theta) demand function so users can supply state-level coefficients, and coefficient and weekday-factor accessors underneath. The same instinct removed the built-in holiday table in favour of computing Easter directly, which lifted the date range cap from 2073 to open-ended. Deprecations are handled carefully throughout: renames keep working with lifecycle warnings, and the one hard break was already a warning since 1.1.0.
◆ Prediction
slp_gas_siglinde() was exported specifically so users could plug in region-specific coefficients such as Baden-Wurttemberg's, which points at state-level coefficient sets as the next thing to ship rather than leave to callers. The BDEW reference edition is now pinned to an Internet Archive permalink after the last one 404'd, so tracking edition changes is an ongoing maintenance cost.
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Recent activity from ggalign and standardlastprofile
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1mo agostandardlastprofileValidation against the SigLinDe pole; numeric variant accepted
- 2mo agostandardlastprofileGas standard load profiles arrive alongside electricity ⚡
- 5mo agostandardlastprofileFive 2025 BDEW profiles added, including PV and storage variants
- 10mo agoggalignalignpatch internals moved to S7; Patch object exported
- 11mo agoggalignInternals migrated to S7; ideogram, tags and image shapes
- 1y agoggalignz aesthetic scales and guide collection in borders
- 1y agoggalignchannelGrob() draws across facets; ggplot2 3.5.2 fix
- 1y agoggalignLayout system declared complete; polar facets and coord_circle()
- 1y agoggalignLayouts split into discrete and continuous; linking system added ⚡
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between ggalign and standardlastprofile?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. ggalign and standardlastprofile are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is ggalign better than standardlastprofile?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ggalign and standardlastprofile are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to ggalign?
Top ggalign alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ggalign alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ggalign for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to standardlastprofile?
Top standardlastprofile alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "standardlastprofile alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/standardlastprofile for the full list with editorial commentary on each.