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Source: NEWS.md

glyph (development version)

  • Fixed the entrance/slide animation for bar charts showing no bars on Safari and Chrome mobile (#2). The animation was reading a value that was never set and had already been zeroed out, so bars always animated to zero height; it now stores each bar’s real height/position before animating.
  • Made plots responsive: the SVG now scales to fill its container (via viewBox) instead of a fixed 600px width, and the theme background now always covers the full plot area. Previously a dark theme’s background didn’t reach the edges on narrower or wider containers, including on mobile.
  • Added a reset-zoom control, and made double-tap reset the zoom instead of always zooming in further, so a zoomed-in plot can be zoomed back out on touch devices.
  • Tooltips now also appear on tap and dismiss on tapping elsewhere, for touch devices that have no hover state.
  • Brush selection now also clears on a tap outside the plot, not just on a no-drag tap inside it.
  • Fixed tapping/clicking a point doing nothing when both brush and tooltip/click interactions were enabled on the same mark: the brush’s full-plot overlay sits on top of the marks (so a drag can start from anywhere) and was swallowing the tap before it reached the point underneath.
  • Fixed the same problem for continuous mouse hover: hovering over a point did nothing (no tooltip, no hover effect) whenever brush was also enabled on that mark, for the same reason as the tap fix above. Brushing itself still works by dragging from anywhere in the plot area.
  • Fixed one drag both panning and brushing when zoom and brush were enabled on the same mark: zoom binds its drag to the <svg> and brush to an overlay inside it, so a single mousedown started both gestures. A drag now does one thing at a time — it brushes by default when brushing is available, and a small toggle next to the reset-zoom control (shown only when both are enabled) switches dragging between selecting and panning. The scroll wheel, a trackpad pinch, a two-finger pinch and a double-click/double-tap always zoom, whichever mode the toggle is in.
  • Two-finger pinch-zoom now works on plots that also have brush enabled. d3-brush stops propagation of every touch move once its one-finger gesture starts, so a second finger never reached the zoom behavior; the pinch is now handled before anything can intercept it.
  • Fixed the plot jumping by its axis-margin offset the first time it was zoomed or panned — the zoom transform replaced the plot group’s existing margin translate instead of composing with it.
  • Clicking the reset-zoom control no longer discards the brush selection.
  • Tapping the plot’s margin (inside the chart but outside the plot area) now clears the brush selection, as tapping outside the widget already did.
  • Double-tap zoom/reset on touch no longer depends on d3-zoom’s internal gesture detection, which also makes it work for repeated double-taps and while dragging is set to brushing.
  • Computed aesthetic mappings (e.g. x = log(wt), color = factor(cyl)) are now evaluated at compile time instead of being silently dropped; the expression text is used as the default axis/legend label.
  • Rows with NA in a mapped position aesthetic (x, y, x2, y2, y_min, y_max) are now dropped for that mark at compile time, with a warning reporting how many rows were removed and from which aesthetic(s), similar to ggplot2.
  • facet(rows =, cols =) now accepts a computed expression (e.g. facet(cols = factor(cyl))), evaluated the same way as an aesthetic mapping — previously the raw expression text was used as a literal (nonexistent) column name, so faceting on anything but a plain column silently produced a single, unlabeled facet.
  • Faceted panels now use each mark’s own resolved data — computed mapping columns and NA-dropped rows included — instead of an unfiltered slice of the shared data, so facet() combined with a computed mapping or with NA values now behaves the same as the unfaceted case.
  • Removed the auto-selection of a “canvas” or “webgl” rendering engine by data size in compile() — no such renderer has ever existed, only the D3/SVG renderer does, so the “selection” never did anything. compile(engine = ...) now only accepts "auto"/"html" and errors on other values instead of silently accepting them.
  • Removed remaining claims of WebGL/Canvas rendering and standalone static SVG export from the package description, documentation, README, and ARCHITECTURE.md; a Canvas renderer is planned for a future release.
  • Added Mike Bostock to Authors@R and inst/COPYRIGHTS to credit the bundled D3.js library (ISC license), per CRAN policy for bundled JavaScript.
  • Added an “Acknowledgements” section to the README and the glyph-package help page, crediting the prior art glyph’s design draws on.
  • Documented mark_text(smart_repel = TRUE)’s actual method (iterative pairwise nudging of overlapping label boxes) instead of leaving it unspecified, and credited ggrepel as the inspiration.
  • Fixed roxygen warnings that were silently skipping the summary.glyph_spec and print.glyph_layout help topics for lacking a title.

glyph 0.1.1

CRAN release: 2026-07-08

  • Fixed critical rendering bug where interactive plots displayed as blank in RStudio viewer, R Markdown documents, and Shiny apps. Data was being serialized in column-oriented format instead of the row-records format expected by the ‘D3.js’ frontend.
  • Added error surfacing in the htmlwidget so JavaScript failures display a visible error message instead of a silent blank div.
  • Added sizing policy for better default widget dimensions in R Markdown and pkgdown contexts.

glyph 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2026-07-06