API-first package design — and learning patchwork in the process
summary
An API-first approach drives the design of patchwork so a single plus operator composes ggplots into aligned, nested layouts without extra complexity; the package explicitly aligns axes and titles, can free alignment for plots with odd spacing, and offers plot_layout(guides = "collect") to merge redundant legends and titles. The claim is that coherence and composability let a tiny surface scale to arbitrary complex figures, and real-world use and downstream ports (e.g., matplotlib adopting a similar operator) show it works.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:24Patchwork
- 2:38Talk
- 5:12Having a mission
- 11:20Embrace the no
- 17:58Powerful Simplicity
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