Spruce up your ggplot2 visualizations with formatted text

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The ggtext package adds a lightweight HTML/CSS/markdown renderer to ggplot2, with a companion gridtext engine already on CRAN; it implements italics and bold, images in axis labels, and geom_richtext for in-plot labels. Examples show automated species names via glue, colored text matched to semi-transparent fills using scale_fill_identity, and images inserted into tick labels; code uses element_markdown for theme elements. The custom renderer supports fonts, color, superscript/subscript and works for the demonstrated cases, with more HTML/CSS features planned.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:50Stuck overflow example
3. 3:10Formatting text with GDText
4. 5:20Formatting text with Glue
5. 6:30Adding color
6. 10:00Other options
7. 11:15Code
8. 12:50GridText package
9. 14:35One word of caution
10. 16:35Questions

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