suggested small tweaks to README #6612
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…ajor new version after saying 'ggplot2 itself changes relatively little' since there's been a significant change
thomasp85
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| ggplot2 is now over 10 years old and is used by hundreds of thousands of people to make millions of plots. That means, by-and-large, ggplot2 itself changes relatively little. When we do make changes, they will be generally to add new functions or arguments rather than changing the behaviour of existing functions, and if we do make changes to existing behaviour we will do them for compelling reasons. | ||
| ggplot2 is now 18 years old and is used by hundreds of thousands of people to make millions of plots. That means, by-and-large, ggplot2 itself changes relatively little. When we do make changes, they will be generally to add new functions or arguments rather than changing the behaviour of existing functions, and if we do make changes to existing behaviour we will do them for compelling reasons. | ||
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| For information about the major new 4.0.0 version, see the tidyverse blog post [ggplot2 4.0.0](https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09/ggplot2-4-0-0/) |
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I don't think we should add a link specifically to the latest release post as that would create one more place to remember to update it
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From a user perspective there is still relatively little change and 4.0.0 is in that regard not more different than 3.5 or any of the other minor releases which also had a few new features. The reason for the major release is the adoption of the S7 system which is rather invisible to the user |
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Good point. Done (I think) |
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ggplot2 is now a lot older than 10 years, so suggest updating that. In addition, maybe README should reference the major new 4.0 version after saying 'ggplot2 itself changes relatively little', since there's been a significant change?