Changes in ggplot2

[teunbrand]

Hi there!

We have been preparing a new release of ggplot2 and during a reverse dependency check, it became apparent that the prospective ggplot2 3.5.0 would break some functionality in constructive.

I wasn't able to thoroughly grasp what is the root cause of the breakage, but it would appear as if a scale's call field is (at least partially) responsible. As far is I understood the code, constructive is conconstituting a scale from its call. However, we have changed that field to more accurately reflect the user-level call, rather than the discrete_scale()/continuous_scale() intermediate plumbing. This helps ggplot2 to throw more informative errors and warnings, but unfortunately appears to depart from some assumptions in constructive.

library(ggplot2)

sc <- scale_colour_manual(values = c("blue", "green"))
sc$call
#> scale_colour_manual(values = c("blue", "green"))

constructive::construct(sc)
#> Error in `constructive::construct()`:
#> ! {constructive} could not build the requested code.
#> Caused by error in `endsWith()`:
#> ! non-character object(s)

sc <- xlim(c(10, 20))
sc$call
#> xlim(c(10, 20))

constructive::construct(sc)
#> Error in `constructive::construct()`:
#> ! {constructive} could not build the requested code.
#> Caused by error in `names(args_are_defaults)[args_are_defaults]`:
#> ! invalid subscript type 'list'

^{Created on 2024-01-16 with reprex v2.0.2}

To test with the release candidate, you can install it with the code below:

remotes::install_github("tidyverse/ggplot2", ref = remotes::github_pull("5592"))

The release of ggplot2 3.5.0 is scheduled for the 12th of Februari. The progress of the release can be tracked in tidyverse/ggplot2#5588. We hope that this issue serves as a timely heads up.

[moodymudskipper]

Thank you very much, I'll take a look

[teunbrand]

This is just a kind reminder that the ggplot2 release is scheduled soon.