Meeting chat log
00:10:14 Ed: Hi everyone. My connection is shaky so if I drop off don’t take it personally. 😇
00:10:32 Michael Haugen: Thanks for joining us!
00:10:42 Ryan Metcalf: Great to see you. No worries at all.
00:24:25 Ryan Metcalf: To support Michael’s quote, I mentioned a Swedish Statician…Hans Rosling. The Gapminder project was his brain child. Great Ted Talks were delivered by the user: https://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling
00:32:42 June Choe: re: text/font rendering - {ragg} + {systemfonts} is now recommended over {showtext}/{extrafont}!
00:32:59 June Choe: https://yjunechoe.github.io/posts/2021-06-24-setting-up-and-debugging-custom-fonts/
00:33:39 Federica Gazzelloni: @June thanks
00:34:28 June Choe: here's some quotes from Thomas Lin Pedersen (ggplot2 dev) on showtext/extrafont - https://twitter.com/thomasp85/status/1355083725156077571
https://twitter.com/thomasp85/status/1261539815960518656
00:39:31 Ed: So is it necessary to hard code the locations for those arrows? It won't stop them where it makes sense to go?
00:39:46 Ed: What about different resolution screens, etc.
00:41:36 Kent Johnson: Yes, you have to hard-code the arrow start and end.
00:42:09 Ed: 👍
00:42:46 Kent Johnson: My experience is, it's pretty fiddly to get something really nice. I don't know how plot size / screen resolution affect the arrows.
00:43:42 Ryan Metcalf: https://fivethirtyeight.com/
00:46:42 June Choe: linewidth and arrow size would be subject to resolution but not the stard/end points
00:47:07 June Choe: start/end points are converted to native coordinate units but size is absolute
00:47:46 Ed: 👍
00:48:03 June Choe: (which is why you should never rely just on plot panel output and always use something like ggsave!)
00:48:58 Ed: Awesome tip. Could see myself getting frustrated but good to know going into it.
00:49:35 June Choe: since like an update or two ago, ggsave() started returning the path to the saved image invisibly, so if you
00:50:07 June Choe: if you're on windows, you can do something like `system2("open", ggsave("img.png"))` and itll open up the plot after saving it
00:50:27 June Choe: (open it back up using your system's default photo viewing app)
00:58:21 Ryan Metcalf: Sheesh! This took me forever to find! I mentioned Arrows outside of a graphic. I was using it with D3 objects (similar to ggplot2). https://github.com/krispo/yarrow
01:01:04 June Choe: big fan - and you should check out {sinab} as well for a more powerful version of ggtext by the same dev (though this one's heavily experimental and requires Rust) - https://clauswilke.com/sinab/
01:01:18 Michael Haugen: thanks
01:03:14 June Choe: the 0-1 coord scale in grid here is called "npc" (Normalized Parent Coordinates)
01:04:21 Ryan Metcalf: June, you are a wealth of knowledge! 🙂I may ping you outside of Zoom (Slack) for further discussions on Graphical Objects.
01:05:00 Ryan S: Awesome job Michael!
01:05:12 June Choe: For sure @Ryan ! Always happy to talk about data viz
01:05:15 June Choe: and thanks for presenting Michael!
01:05:50 June Choe: xaringanExtra i think
01:06:22 June Choe: https://pkg.garrickadenbuie.com/xaringanExtra/#/extra-styles
01:07:31 Federica Gazzelloni: Thanks Michael