NEWS

ggplotplus 0.5.5 (2026-06-17)

geom_point_plus(), a fill+color point geom with a more distinguishable custom shape palette, plus the ability to add custom shapes via add_shape_plus().
geom_jitter_plus(), a jittered wrapper around geom_point_plus().
theme_plus() for Universal Design-inspired ggplot2 defaults.
gridlines_plus() and yaxis_title_plus() helpers for thoughtful gridlines on continuous scales only and horizontally oriented y-axis titles, respectively.
scale_continuous_plus() for forcing labels near the endpoints of continuous scales.
direct_labels_plus() for directly labeling point and line geometries as an alternative to a legend.

direct_labels_plus() added as an experimental/trial feature.
Coaching messages for plots with too many requested discrete colour, fill, or shape values for easy distinguishability.
Coaching messages when scale titles appear to use raw column names instead of something potentially more human-readable.
Added a session-level option, ggplotplus.enable_coaching, to disable coaching messages globally.
Legend-key overrides so constant, low alpha and size settings do not unnecessarily reduce legend key symbol readability.
Helper functions supporting use of ggplotplus graphs with cowplot and patchwork. See ggplotplus_to_*.