nflplotR 1.6.0

• Added new experimental function gt_pct_bar(). A helper that adds filled percentage bars to ‘gt’ table to add context to values. (#76, #77)
• Changed css styling of images in package documentation by CRAN request. (#90)

nflplotR 1.5.0

• Rewrite theme elements in S7 to fully work with ggplot2 v4. This means nflplotR now requires ggplot2 v4! nflplotR is a ggplot2 extension and if ggplot2 version jumps make breaking changes, then it’s best for the extension to not try to be downwards compatible. The theme system is now fully powered by ggpath. (#73)
• Updated the New York Jets logo (again) to their new secondary logo introduced in the 2024 off-season. This aligns with the logo used across nfl dot com and it has been voted for in a poll. (#68)
• The theme elements element_nfl_logo() and element_nfl_wordmark() now clean team abbreviations by calling nflreadr::clean_team_abbrs() and insert empty grobs for mismatches.
• All geoms and theme elements will print more informative warnings about team abbreviation, or player ID mismatches.
• The gt logo rendering functions now add alt text for accessibility and to silence an annoying pkgdown warning. (#69)
• nflplotR now requires R 4.1 because magick needs this R version. This also follows the Tidyverse R version support rules. (#71)

nflplotR 1.4.0

• Updated the New York Jets logo to their new design introduced in the 2024 off-season. (#62)
• Drop dependency to package rappdirs and create an optional user cache with base R’s implementation. To support older R versions, nflplotR now imports the backports package. (#64)
• nflplotR v1.3.0 deprecated the functions scale_x_nfl, scale_y_nfl, scale_x_nfl_headshots, scale_y_nfl_headshots, theme_x_nfl, theme_y_nfl. They are completely removed from the source now. (#64)

nflplotR 1.3.1

• Adjusted internals by CRAN request. No visible changes for the user. (#60)

nflplotR 1.3.0

New Features

• Added the new function gt_nfl_cols_label() that renders logos and wordmarks in column labels of {gt} tables. (#52)

Bug Fixes & Minor Improvements

• The functions geom_nfl_headshots() and gt_nfl_headshots() better handle NA gsis IDs. (#48)
• The functions gt_nfl_logos() and gt_nfl_wordmarks() now keep non team name matches to allow the user to call gt::sub_missing(). (#48)
• The functions gt_nfl_logos() and gt_nfl_wordmarks() now correctly render images in gt row group labels. (#49)
• The function geom_nfl_logos() now plots the NFL logo, if team_abbr == "NFL". (#51)
• The function gt_nfl_cols_label() now allows rendering of player headshots in column labels. Thanks Steven Patton@spatto12 for the PR. (#55)
• Adjust lists in documentation as the next R version checks for correctly formatted lists. (#56)
• gt_nfl_logos() and gt_nfl_wordmarks() now correctly allow unquoted column names in the columns argument. (#57)

Deprecation

• Deprecated the functions scale_x_nfl, scale_y_nfl, scale_x_nfl_headshots, scale_y_nfl_headshots, theme_x_nfl, theme_y_nfl. These function are slow and require a possibly unstable dependency. Please use the far superior element_nfl_logo() and friends instead. (#50)

nflplotR 1.2.0

New Features

• Add new functions gt_nfl_logos() and gt_nfl_wordmarks() to render logos and wordmarks in gt() html tables. (#39)
• Add new function gt_nfl_headshots() to render player headshots in gt() html tables. (#41)
• Add new function gt_render_image() to render gt tables to an image in package function examples or reproducible examples. (#42)
• Add new function nflverse_sitrep() to compute a nflverse related situation report.

Breaking Changes

• The functions geom_from_path(), element_path() as well as the ref line functions geom_mean_line() and geom_median_line() have been outsourced to the ggpath package. nflplotR re-exports them for compatibility reasons. However, the ref line functions needed modification in order to work properly with ggplot2 scale transformations. Those geoms now require the aesthetics x0 and y0 instead of v_var and h_var respectively. This means that nflplotR will break code (!) where ref line geoms are called with v_var and h_var aesthetics. This is a hard but necessary step to revise an irreparable mistake in the development of the original code. (#43)

Minor Changes

• Update Eagles and Commanders wordmarks with latest versions from NFL. (#44)
• Update Bears logo (it’s now the Bear) and secondary color to meet their brand guidelines. (#46)

Thank you to @Adeiko, and @tanho63 for their questions, feedback, and contributions towards this release.

nflplotR 1.1.0

• nflplotR will internally cache images used in all geoms and elements. The cache behavior can be controlled by setting options("nflplotR.cache") to one of "memory", "filesystem", or "off". It is possible to clear the cache with the new function .nflplotR_clear_cache(). This functionality added the dependencies cachem, memoise and rappdirs.
• Resolved an issue where geom_mean_lines() and geom_median_lines() didn’t draw lines when a scale transformation, e.g. scale_*_reverse(), was applied.
• Added new function nfl_team_factor() which creates ordered factors of NFL team names for facetted plots.

nflplotR 1.0.1

• Updated the internal logo and wordmark files with the new Washington Commanders design.
• Fixed some issues with theme-elements and updated examples.

nflplotR 1.0.0

• Added the geom_nfl_logos() geom.
• Added the geom_mean_lines() and geom_median_lines() geoms. (v0.0.0.9002)
• geom_nfl_logos() now tries to clean the team abbreviations by calling nflreadr::clean_team_abbrs()
• Added the color and fill scales scale_color_nfl() and scale_fill_nfl(). (v0.0.0.9003)
• Added the axis scales scale_x_nfl() and scale_y_nfl() in combination with the theme update functions theme_x_nfl() and theme_y_nfl(). (v0.0.0.9004)
• Fixed an incompatible position argument in scale_y_nfl(). (v.0.0.9005)
• Added the function ggpreview() which allows to preview a ggplot in it’s actual dimensions. (v.0.0.9006)
• geom_nfl_logos() now supports a colour aesthetic that colorizes the logos. (v0.0.9007)
• Added the function nfl_team_tiers() that build an NFL team tiers ggplot, thanks to Timo Riske for the suggestion. (v.0.0.9008)
• Fixed a bug (#10) in geom_median_lines() and geom_mean_lines() that caused alpha to not work properly. (v.0.0.9009)
• Improved nfl_team_tiers() by adding the opportunity to modify title, subtitle, caption of the plot. Added functionality to remove tier separation lines for combined tiers. Added functionality to run the function in “developer” mode which means, that team abbreviations will be plotted instead of logos (much faster). (v.0.0.9010)
• Added the geom_nfl_headshots() geom that plots headshots for valid gsis IDs. (v0.0.9011)
• Added the axis scales scale_x_nfl_headshots() and scale_y_nfl_headshots(). (v.0.0.9012)
• Updated internal data to use the new team colors in nflfastR. (v.0.0.9013)
• Added the geom_nfl_wordmarks() geom that plots NFL wordmarks using valid team abbreviations. (v.0.0.9014)
• Added the geom_from_path() geom that plots images from urls, local paths and more. (v.0.0.9015)
• Added the ggplot2 theme-elements element_nfl_logo(), element_nfl_wordmark(), element_nfl_headshot(), and element_path() which translate NFL team abbreviations or player IDs into team logos and player headshots. These elements feature a major speed improvement over the axis scales scale_x_nfl_headshots() and scale_y_nfl_headshots() and make the package less dependent on an underlying package. (v.0.0.0.9016)