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Themes for ggplot2

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An institutional ggplot2 theme in slow maintenance, tracking upstream deprecations.

data-visualizationggplot2brand-themingr-packagegovernment-research
◆Current state
INBOtheme supplies ggplot2 themes and colour palettes matching the house style of INBO and the Flemish government. The current release is compatibility work: silencing ggplot2 deprecation warnings, quieting an interactive palette message, and refreshing the shared checklist tooling INBO uses across its packages. The substantive palette work happened two years earlier.
◆Where it's heading
Development is reactive rather than directional — the package changes when ggplot2 changes or when institutional branding does. The 0.6.0 release reworked palettes and split the documentation; since then the only movement has been keeping that surface valid against upstream deprecations. Note that the feed is not strictly chronological, with 0.5.7 published after 0.5.8.
◆Prediction
The next release is most likely another ggplot2 compatibility pass; a branding refresh would be the only plausible trigger for anything larger, and nothing in these entries signals one.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1y ago

    Clears ggplot2 deprecation warnings and updates tooling

    Removes a ggplot2 deprecated-argument warning, limits a palette size message to interactive sessions, restores vignette captions and updates the shared INBO checklist tooling. Housekeeping against upstream changes.

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  2. 3y ago

    Palette overhaul with ordinal and gradient scales

    The last substantive release: new palette colours, distinct ordinal, gradient and midpoint-gradient treatments in the themes, a show_palette() helper, and the removal of previously deprecated functions. This defines the surface the current release is merely maintaining.

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  3. 4y ago

    Removes bundled fonts over showtext rendering problems

    Drops the bundled fonts because showtext rendered them too small in raster output and converted text to paths in vector formats, bloating files and blocking later editing. A deliberate trade of convenience for output quality.

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  4. 5y ago

    Adds NARA theme; renames objects to snake_case

    Adds the NARA theme and palette, drops colours from the pre-2014 theme and renames objects to snake_case. Note the feed order: this 0.5.7 entry was published after 0.5.8.

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  5. 5y ago

    traffic_palette() becomes the default ordinal palette

    Introduces traffic_palette() and makes it the default for ordinal palettes — a default change that silently alters existing plots. Small, but it reaches every ordinal scale in the package.

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  6. 7y ago

    Version 0.5.5.3

    A one-line compatibility bump for a new ggplot2 version. The same reactive pattern that still drives the package's releases today.

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