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ggplot2 is a lot older than 10 years, and I suggest referencing the m…
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Removed last paragraph from README and rebuilt as requested
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[![lifecycle](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-stable-brightgreen.svg)](https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html)

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.

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


If you are looking for innovation, look to ggplot2's rich ecosystem of extensions. See a community maintained list at <https://exts.ggplot2.tidyverse.org/gallery/>.

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