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arulesViz

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Visualizing Association Rules and Frequent Itemsets

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arulesViz finished its move to ggplot2 and has been coasting on maintenance since.

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◆Current state
arulesViz draws the association rules produced by arules — scatterplots, matrix and grouped-matrix views, rule graphs, and a Shiny explorer. The rendering foundation has been settled since 1.5.0 made ggplot2 the default engine for most plots. The two most recent releases contain no new capability: roxygen migration and deprecation catch-up in 1.5.3, and a partial-argument-match cleanup in 1.5.4 that landed the same week as the identical fix in sibling package seriation.
◆Where it's heading
The 2021 releases were a deliberate consolidation. 1.4-0 added ggplot2 engines and cut plotly_arules and the experimental iplots support out of the interface; 1.5.0 promoted ggplot2 to default and exposed the conversions to igraph and matrix so users could build their own views; 1.5-1 filled gaps in the graph and grouped-matrix methods. Since then the package tracks its dependencies rather than extending itself, which is a reasonable end state for a mature visualization layer.
◆Prediction
Expect continued reactive releases keyed to ggplot2 and igraph deprecations, which have driven two of the last three updates. Nothing in these entries suggests new plot methods are planned.

◆Recent moves

  1. 11mo ago

    arulesViz 1.5.4: partial argument matches, translucent NA color

    Routine CRAN-driven cleanup — partial argument matches fixed, and NA now renders translucent in the ggplot2 matrix and ggraph views. The same partial-match fix appears in seriation a day earlier, marking this as one maintainer's sweep across a package family rather than package-specific work.

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  2. 2y ago

    arulesViz 1.5.3 moves docs to roxygen, updates deprecated calls

    Documentation moves to roxygen and deprecated ggplot2 and igraph calls are updated, with local tests added to exercise full man pages. Entirely upkeep, and the rolled-in 1.5-2 notes are S3 registration details.

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  3. 4y ago

    arulesViz 1.5-1 extends graph and grouped-matrix plots

    The follow-through on the ggplot2 switch: the graph method moves to ggraph and can represent associations as edges rather than nodes, vizNetwork gains itemset display, and plot gains a limit parameter for large rule sets. Small additions, but they close the gaps the engine change opened.

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  4. 5y ago

    arulesViz 1.5.0 makes ggplot2 the default plotting engine

    ggplot2 becomes the default for most plots, completing the transition 1.4-0 started, and the conversions from associations to igraph and from rules to matrix are exposed as public API. That second part matters more than the default swap: it lets users build views the package does not ship.

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  5. 5y ago

    arulesViz 1.4-0 adds ggplot2 engines, drops plotly_arules and iplots

    The pruning release. Scatterplot and matrix gain ggplot2 engines while plotly_arules and experimental iplots support leave the interface, consolidating several rendering paths into an engine argument. grid drops from dependency to import.

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  6. 7y ago

    arulesViz 1.3-3 cleans up the ruleExplorer interface

    The Shiny rule explorer added the release before gets a tidier interface and several additions, plus a paracoord fix for single-item antecedents. Refinement of the interactive surface just before attention shifted to the ggplot2 rework.

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