[R] Is there some place where I can check a changelog / NEWS for the grid package?

[Paul Murrell]

Hi

On 17/08/2024 12:05 am, Uwe Ligges wrote:
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> On 16.08.2024 13:46, Iago Giné Vázquez wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> On one hand, I wanted to ask if there is some place where I can check 
>> a changelog / NEWS for the grid package, as it is not on CRAN. And in 
>> that case, where can I find it?
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> Grid is part of R, hence you can look at R's NEWS, e.g. at
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> <https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/NEWS.html>
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> or directly in the svn commit messages at the svn server
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> svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/

NOTE that some changes to grid that do not warrant NEWS items may be in
src/library/grid/inst/doc/changes.txt

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>> On the other hand, I wanted to ask you for tutorials to start 
>> understanding the grid package or what other recommendations you have 
>> of introductions to that package (and their extensions...)
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> Paul MUrrell wrote some papers and a book, but there are also the 
> vignettes, type
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> vignette(package="grid")
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> to get an overview.
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This chapter from the first edition of the "R Graphics" book may be old 
but should mostly still be true ...

https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/chapter5.pdf

Paul

> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
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>> Best regards,
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>> Iago
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