BrailleR archived

[teunbrand]

The BrailleR package, which interacts with ggplot2 by giving a textual description of plot objects, has been archived on CRAN.

We have a clause in the print method about BrailleR:

ggplot2/R/plot.R

Lines 222 to 224 in bed8e32

	if (isTRUE(getOption("BrailleR.VI")) && rlang::is_installed("BrailleR")) {
	print(asNamespace("BrailleR")$VI(x))
	}

If there are no plans to resurrect BrailleR, we might as well remove these lines of code.

@ajrgodfrey are there plans to get BrailleR back on CRAN?

[ajrgodfrey]

Mmm. I'm not receiving notifications from CRAN about issues and potential archival so have not yet investigated what will be required. The text description is incredibly useful to those of us who cannot interpret plots by any other means. The code snippet is harmless to all other users. Please do not take it out. For those of us who are using BrailleR, even by a now old version, updates to ggplot2 (up to v3.5.2 at least) have not broken the text descriptions. Jonathan From: Teun van den Brand ***@***.***> Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2025 3:39 am To: tidyverse/ggplot2 ***@***.***> Cc: Jonathan Godfrey ***@***.***>; Mention ***@***.***> Subject: [tidyverse/ggplot2] BrailleR archived (Issue #6599) [https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/49372158?s=20&v=4]teunbrand created an issue (tidyverse/ggplot2#6599)<#6599> The BrailleR package, which interacts with ggplot2 by giving a textual description of plot objects, has been archived on CRAN. We have a clause in the print method about BrailleR: https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/blob/bed8e32d45c7dc98afb783b409edac98854d41a7/R/plot.R#L222-L224 If there are no plans to resurrect BrailleR, we might as well remove these lines of code. @ajrgodfrey<https://github.com/ajrgodfrey> are there plans to get BrailleR back on CRAN? - Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#6599>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADCZKGTTUKPVZDVOMUZLC5T3R3YB3AVCNFSM6AAAAACGBII3GSVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ASLTON2WKOZTGM4TQOJYGY3TEMI>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.******@***.***>>

[teunbrand]

Thanks for the reply! If there is a desire to get BrailleR back on CRAN, let's not remove these lines of code then. From a brief glance it seems that the problem was that extrafonts has been archived, which was a hard dependency for BrailleR.