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ggpubr 0.6.3

CRAN release: 2026-02-24

Major changes

  • Raised minimum R version to R >= 4.1.0 (from R >= 3.1.0) to match ggplot2 >= 3.5.2 requirement.
  • Raised minimum dplyr version to dplyr >= 1.1.0 (from dplyr >= 0.7.1) to use modern reframe(), slice_head(), slice_tail(), across(), and where() functions.

Minor changes

Bug fixes

ggpubr 0.6.2

CRAN release: 2025-10-17

Bug fixes

  • Fixed compatibility with R-devel r88748 (2025-08-31) which changed Wilcoxon test to provide exact conditional two-sample inference with ties. The compare_means() function now sets exact = FALSE for wilcox.test() and pairwise.wilcox.test() to maintain backward compatibility and consistent p-values across R versions (#647).

ggpubr 0.6.1

CRAN release: 2025-06-27

New features

  • Added outliers parameter to ggboxplot() to control the display of outlier points. Set outliers = FALSE to remove the black dots representing outliers from box plots (#614, @hswl1314).

Minor changes

  • Enhanced automatic conversion of deprecated dot-dot notation (..p.signif.., ..eq.label..) to modern after_stat() calls with proper namespace qualification.
  • Enhanced ggline() parameter handling for ggplot2 3.4.0+ compatibility:
    • Added linewidth parameter for line width
    • Deprecated size parameter for lines with helpful warning message
    • Maintained backward compatibility with existing size parameter
    • Prevents conflicts when both parameters are specified

Bug fixes

  • Fixed namespace resolution issues with after_stat() calls that were causing failures in reverse dependency packages (bSi, PopComm). The convert_label_dotdot_notation_to_after_stat() function now properly handles namespace qualification while maintaining backward compatibility (#638).
  • Improved evaluation environment setup to ensure ggplot2::after_stat() is accessible during plot building, resolving “could not find function after_stat” errors in downstream packages.
  • Fixed equation format in stat_regline_equation() to display in standard mathematical convention “y = mx + b” instead of “y = b + mx” (#559, @tshates, @mwaak).
  • Fixed compatibility with ggplot2 4.0.0. Updated gghistogram() tests to handle changes in binning standardization introduced in ggplot2 4.0.0 (#635, @teunbrand).
  • Fixed stat_pvalue_manual() failing when fill or other aesthetics are provided in the parent ggplot layer. The function now sets inherit.aes = FALSE by default to prevent conflicts between parent plot aesthetics and the p-value annotation data (#621, @fncokg).
  • Fixed deprecation warnings for newer package versions:
    • Replaced deprecated ggplot2::is.ggplot() with ggplot2::is_ggplot() in ggpar()
    • Updated .data$column syntax to quoted column names in geom_pwc() for tidyselect 1.2.0+ compatibility
    • Added all_of() wrapper in unnest() utility function for tidyselect compatibility
    • Replaced the option size by linewidth in ggplot2 element_line() and element_trect() functions.
  • Fixed deprecation warning in stat_regline_equation() by automatically converting deprecated dot-dot notation (..eq.label.., ..adj.rr.label.., ..p.signif.., etc.) to after_stat() syntax for ggplot2 3.4.0+ compatibility (#623, @hinkyisme).
  • Fixed deprecation warnings in add_summary() and ggerrorplot() for ggplot2 compatibility:
    • Updated internal stat_summary() parameters to use fun, fun.min, and fun.max instead of deprecated fun.y, fun.ymin, and fun.ymax (#587, @vlonde).
    • Fixed line aesthetic parameters by using linewidth instead of size for line-based error plots

ggpubr 0.6.0

CRAN release: 2023-02-10

New features

Major changes

Minor changes

  • ggtexttable(): doc updated with another example; text justification for individual cells/rows/columns (#335).
  • ggpie(): setting the default of clip = "off" in coord_polar() so that ggpie() does not crop labels (#429)
  • as_ggplot(): using null_device to avoid blank page #306 and #158
  • ggarrange(): using null_device to avoid blank page #306 and #158
  • Indexing variable in a data frame: using df[[x]] instead of df[, x] to make sure that the result is a vector even if the df is a tibble.
  • ggexport(): support added for graphics device svg (#469)
  • ggpie() and ggdonutchart() now fully reacts to the option lab.font (#502)
  • Replacing deprecated gather_() in both internal (.check_data()) and exported functions (compare_means()) (#513)
  • stat_compare_means(): The dot-dot notation (..p.signif..) was deprecated in ggplot2 3.4.0; after_stat(p.signif) should be used; updated so that ..p.signif.. is automatically converted into after_stat() format without warning for bacward compatibility.
  • Enable faceting by column names with spaces (#391)
  • Licence changed to GPL (>= 2) (#482)
  • desc_statby() doc updated to clarify the difference between SD (standard deviation) and SE (standard error) (#492)
  • The message geom_smooth() using formula 'y ~ x' is now turned off in ggscatter()(#488)

Bug fixes

  • ggtext(): fix warning “filter_() was deprecated in dplyr 0.7.0”.
  • ggqqplot(): the argument conf.int is taken into account now when specified (#524).
  • ggqqplot(): Fixing the warning: “The following aesthetics were dropped during statistical transformation: sample” (#523)
  • Requiring rstatix v >=0.7.1.999 for preserving factor class in emmeans_test() (#386)
  • ggmaplot(): Suppressing ggmaplot warning: Unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider increasing max.overlaps (#520)
  • compare_means(): works now when the grouping variable levels contain the key words group2 or group1 (#450)
  • ggparagraph() : fixing bug about minimum paragraph length (#408)
  • ggexport(): the verbose argument is now considered when specifyed by user (#474)

ggpubr 0.5.0

CRAN release: 2022-11-16

New features

  • New functions stat_anova_test(), stat_kruskal_test(), stat_welch_anova_test(), stat_friedman_test() and geom_pwc() added. These are flexible functions to add p-values onto ggplot with more options. The function geom_pwc() is for adding pairwise comparisons p-values to a ggplot; supportted statistical methods include “wilcox_test”, “t_test”, “sign_test”, “dunn_test”, “emmeans_test”, “tukey_hsd” and “games_howell_test”.
  • New functions to convert character vector coordinates into NPC (normalized parent coordinates) and data coordinates: as_npc(), npc_to_data_coordinates() and get_coord().
  • Global options:
    • New function ggpubr_options() to display allowed global options in ggpubr
    • New available package options: ggpubr.parse_aes. logical indicating whether to parse or not the aesthetics variables names. Default is TRUE. For example, if you want ggpubr to handle non-standard column names, like A-A, without parsing, then set this option to FALSE using options(ggpubr.parse_aes = FALSE).

Minor changes

  • Minimum rstatix version needed is set to 0.7.1
  • Minimum ggplot2 version needed is set to 3.4.0
  • stat_conf_ellipse: ensure stat returns a data.frame for compatibility with ggplot2 v>=3.4.0
  • stat_compare_means():
    • Unit tests added
    • Updated to use after_stat(p.signif) as the dot-dot notation (..p.signif..) was deprecated in ggplot2 3.4.0 (#509).
  • ggdensity() and gghistogram(): dot-dot notation (..density.., ..count..) replaced by after_stat(density) and after_stat(count), respectively for compatibility with ggplot2 3.4.0.
  • create_aes():
    • Default is now to parse its input, which can be an expression (#348). If you want ggpubr to handle non-standard column names (#229), like A-A, without parsing, then set this option to FALSE using options(ggpubr.parse_aes = FALSE).
    • Supports space in column names like “Dimension 1”
    • Unittest added
  • Arguments (digits and table.font.size) added to ggsummarystats() for changing the summary table decimal place and text size (#341).
  • In stat_pvalue_manual() the argument hide.ns can be either a logical value (TRUE or FALSE) or a character value (“p” or “p.adj” for filtering out non significant by p-value or adjusted p-values).
  • Now, the x-axis tick label names correctly align with the corresponding ticks when the rotation angle of the texts is set to 90. This is automatically achieved by setting internally vjust = 0.5 (#301).
  • Capital NS. is no longer displayed by stat_compare_means() (#171)
  • Unit tests added forggshistogram() to make sure that it works when:
    • using after_stat(),
    • using after_stat() with trailing space inside parentheses.
  • Unit tests added forggscatter() to make sure that:
    • it works when there is spaces in variable names
    • it can handle non-standard column names when ggpubr.parse_aes global option is set to FALSE (#229)

ggpubr 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2020-06-27

New features

  • New functions added to customize ggtexttable() (#125, #129 and #283):
    • tab_cell_crossout(): cross out a table cell.
    • tab_ncol(), tab_nrow(): returns, respectively, the number of columns and rows in a ggtexttable.
    • tab_add_hline(): Creates horizontal lines or separators at the top or the bottom side of a given specified row.
    • tab_add_vline(): Creates vertical lines or separators at the right or the left side of a given specified column.
    • tab_add_border(), tbody_add_border(), thead_add_border(): Add borders to table; tbody is for table body and thead is for table head.
    • tab_add_title() and tab_add_footnote() to add titles and footnotes (#243).
  • ggpubr functions updated to handle non-standard column names, for example (“A-A”) (#229).
  • New function create_aes() added to create aes mapping from a list. Makes programming easy with ggplot2 (#229).
  • New argument coord.flip added to support adding p-values onto horizontal ggplots (#179). When adding the p-values to a horizontal ggplot (generated using coord_flip()), you need to specify the option coord.flip = TRUE.
  • New errorbar functions - median_hilow_() and median_q1q3() - added (@davidlorenz, #209):
    • median_hilow_(): computes the sample median and a selected pair of outer quantiles having equal tail areas. This function is a reformatted version of Hmisc::smedian.hilow(). The confidence limits are computed as follow: lower.limits = (1-ci)/2 percentiles; upper.limits = (1+ci)/2 percentiles. By default (ci = 0.95), the 2.5th and the 97.5th percentiles are used as the lower and the upper confidence limits, respectively. If you want to use the 25th and the 75th percentiles as the confidence limits, then specify ci = 0.5 or use the function median_q1q3().
    • median_q1q3(): computes the sample median and, the 25th and 75th percentiles. Wrapper around the function median_hilow_() using ci = 0.5.
  • New function get_breaks() added to easily create breaks for numeric axes. Can be used to increase the number of x and y ticks by specifying the option n. It’s also possible to control axis breaks by specifying a step between ticks. For example, if by = 5, a tick mark is shown on every 5 (@Chitanda-Satou, #258).

Major changes

  • The following enhancement has been added to ggscatterhist() (@juliechevalier, #176):
    • the output of ggscatterhist() is now a list of ggplots, containing the main scatter plot (sp) and the marginal plots (xplot and yplot), which can be customized by the end user using the standard ggplot verbs
    • An S3 printing method is now available for an object of class ggscatterhist. The printing method displays the arranged final figure.

Minor changes

  • Now, when creating a box plot with error bars, color and fill argiments are taken into account in the errorbar function (#105).
  • New argument alternative supported in stat_cor() (#276).
  • New argument position in ggline() to make position “dodged” (#52).
  • New argument outlier.shape in ggboxplot(). Default is 19. To hide outlier, specify outlier.shape = NA. When jitter is added, then outliers will be automatically hidden.
  • Sorting can be now disabled in ggdotchart() using the option sorting = "none" (#115, #223).
  • New argument weight added in gghistogram() for creating a weighted histogram (#215)
  • Now ggscaterhist() takes into account the argument position in margin.params when marginal plot is a histogram (#286).
  • ggbarplot() enhanced to better handle the creation of dodged bar plots combined with jitter points (@aherholt, #176)
  • New argument bracket.shorten added in stat_pvalue_manual() and geom_bracket(). a small numeric value in [0-1] for shortening the with of bracket (#285).
  • New argument bracket.nudge.y added in stat_pvalue_manual() and geom_bracket(). Vertical adjustment to nudge brackets by. Useful to move up or move down the bracket. If positive value, brackets will be moved up; if negative value, brackets are moved down (#281).
  • New argument numeric.x.axis added in ggerrorplot(); logical value, If TRUE, x axis will be treated as numeric. Default is FALSE (#280).
  • The option width is now considered in ggadd() for plotting error bars (#278).
  • New argument linetype in ggpaired().
  • geom_exec() used in ggpaired() to add lines between paired points.
  • ggmaplot() now supports two input formats (#198):
    1. baseMean | log2FoldChange|padj: Here, we’ll use log2(baseMean) as the x-axis variable
    2. baseMeanLog2 | log2FoldChange|padj: here, baseMeanLog2 is assumed to be the mean of logged values; so we’ll use it as x-axis variable without any transformation.
  • new arguments added in ggmaplot():
  • In ggadd() the fill argument is considered for jitter points only when the point shape is in 21:25 (@atakanekiz, #148).
  • New argument parse added in ggscatter() and in ggtext(). If TRUE, the labels will be parsed into expressions and displayed as described in ?plotmath (#250).
  • New argument stroke supported in ggscatter() and in ggline(). Used only for shapes 21-24 to control the thickness of points border (@bioguy2018, #258).
  • the stat_cor() function code has been simplified. New arguments p.accuracy and r.accuracy added; a real value specifying the number of decimal places of precision for the p-value and the correlation coefficient, respectively. Default is NULL. Use (e.g.) 0.01 to show 2 decimal places of precision (@garthtarr, #186, @raedevan6, #114, #270).

Bug fixes

ggpubr 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2020-05-04

New features

Minor changes

  • New arguments:
    • vjsut in stat_compare_means() to move the text up or down relative to the bracket.
    • type in geom_bracket() to specify label type. Can be “text” or “expression” (for parsing plotmath expression); #253.
    • labeller to the function facet()
    • position in get_legend() to specify legend position
    • legend.grob in ggarrange() to specify a common legend you want to add onto the combined plot.
  • Maintenance adaptation to dplyr new version by removing deprecated functions, such as group_by_, select_, arrange_, etc

Bug fixes

  • Now, Barplots are correctly labelled when custom labels are specified by users (@sekharcu, #234)

ggpubr 0.2.5

CRAN release: 2020-02-13

Minor changes

  • New arguments cor.coef.name in the function stat_cor(). Can be one of “R” (pearson coef), “rho” (spearman coef) and “tau” (kendall coef). Uppercase and lowercase are allowed (@andhamel, #216).
  • New arguments digits, r.digits, p.digits in the function stat_cor(). Integer indicating the number of decimal places (round) or significant digits (signif) to be used for the correlation coefficient and the p-value (@raedevan6, #216).
  • compare_means() adapted to tidyr v>= 1.0.0 by specifying cols in the unnest() function (@Youguang, #216).

ggpubr 0.2.4

CRAN release: 2019-11-14

Minor change

  • unnest adapted to tidyr 1.0.0
  • stat_pvalue_manual() can now handle an rstatix test result containing only one group column.

ggpubr 0.2.3

CRAN release: 2019-09-03

New features

  • New function stat_central_tendency() to add central tendency measures (mean, median, mode) to density and histogram plots
  • New function stat_overlay_normal_density() to overlay normal density plot (with the same mean and SD) to the density distribution of ‘x’.

Minor changes

Bug fixes

ggpubr 0.2.2

CRAN release: 2019-08-07

New fatures

  • New function geom_bracket() for adding brackets with label annotation to a ggplot. Helpers for adding p-value or significance levels to a plot.

Minor changes

Bug fixes

  • Bug fixes in gghistogram(). Works now when the x variable is R keyword, such as var, mean, etc. (#192)
  • In ggline(), error bars now react automatically to grouping by line type (#191)

ggpubr 0.2.1

CRAN release: 2019-06-23

Minor changes

Bug fixes

ggpubr 0.2

CRAN release: 2018-11-15

Bug fixes

  • P-value for multiple comparisons by group (stat_compare_means()) are now correctly displayed (@elisheva100, #135).

ggpubr 0.1.9

CRAN release: 2018-11-11

Minor changes

  • ggsci palettes have been updated to add new palettes: nejm, jama, ucscgb, d3, locuszoom, igv, startrek, tron, futurama, simpsons (@cbrueffer, #118

Bug fixes

  • The option ref.group was only considered when the grouping variable contains more than two levels. In that case, each level is compared against the specified reference group. Now, ref.group option is also considereded in two samples mean comparisons (@OwenDonohoe, #118)

  • Now, ggqqplot() reacts to the argument conf.int.level (@vsluydts, #123

  • Added error bar color is now inherited from the main plot (@JesseRop, #109

ggpubr 0.1.8

CRAN release: 2018-08-30

New features

Minor changes

Bug fixes

ggpubr 0.1.7

CRAN release: 2018-06-23

New features

Minor changes

Bug fixes

  • In ggscatterhist() the x variable was plotted two times, on both the plot x & y margins, instead of having, as expected, a) the x variable on the main plot x margin and 2) the y variable on the main plot y margin. This has been now fixed.
  • In previous version, ggdotchart() sorted automatically within groups when the color argument is specified, even when groups = NULL. This default behaviour has been now removed. Sorting withi groups is performed only when the argument group is specified (@sfeds, #90).
  • Now, yticks.by and xticks.by work with NAs (@j3ypi, #89).

ggpubr 0.1.6

CRAN release: 2017-11-14

New features

  • New function ggballoonplot() added to visualize a contingency table.

  • ggdotchart() can be now used to plot multiple groups with position = position_dodge() (@ManuelSpinola, #45).

  • New function ggscatterhist() to create a scatter plot with marginal histograms, density plots and box plots.

  • New theme theme_pubclean(): a clean theme without axis lines, to direct more attention to the data.

  • New arguments in ggarrange() to customize plot labels (@G-Thomson, #41):

    • font.label
    • label.x and label.y
    • hjust and vjust

  • New argument method.args added to stat_compare_means(). A list of additional arguments used for the test method. For example one might use method.args = list(alternative = “greater”) for wilcoxon test (@Nicktz, #41).

  • New argument symnum.args added to stat_compare_means(). A list of arguments to pass to the function symnum for symbolic number coding of p-values. For example, symnum.args <- list(cutpoints = c(0, 0.0001, 0.001, 0.01, 0.05, 1), symbols = c("****", "***", "**", "*", "ns"))

  • New functions table_cell_font() and table_cell_bg() to easily access and change the text font and the background of ggtexttable() cells (@ProbleMaker, #29).

  • New argument numeric.x.axis in ggline(). logical. If TRUE, x axis will be treated as numeric. Default is FALSE. (@mdphan, #35)

  • New argument lab.nb.digits in ggbarplot(). Integer indicating the number of decimal places (round) to be used (#28). Example: lab.nb.digits = 2.

  • New argument tip.length in stat_compare_means(). Numeric vector with the fraction of total height that the bar goes down to indicate the precise column. Default is 0.03. Can be of same length as the number of comparisons to adjust specifically the tip lenth of each comparison. For example tip.length = c(0.01, 0.03).

Minor changes

  • Now get_legend() returns NULL when the plot doesn’t have legend.

Bug fixes

ggpubr 0.1.5

CRAN release: 2017-08-22

Minor changes

  • In ggpar(), now legend.title can be either a character vector, e.g.: legend.title = “Species” or a list, legend.title = list(color = "Species", linetype = "Species", shape = "Species").

  • New argument ellipse.border.remove in ggscatter() to remove ellipse border lines.

ggscatter(mtcars, x = "mpg", y = "wt", 
          color = "cyl",
          ellipse = TRUE, mean.point = TRUE, 
          ellipse.border.remove = TRUE)

Bug fixes

ggpubr 0.1.4

CRAN release: 2017-06-28

New features

Minor changes

  • In gghistogram(), density curve and rug react to the fill color.
  • ggarrange():
    • New argument àlign to specify whether graphs in the grid should be horizontally (“h”) or vertically (“v”) aligned.
    • New argument legend to remove or specify the legend position when arranging multiple plots.
    • New argument common.legend to create a common unique legend for multiple plots.

ggpubr 0.1.3

CRAN release: 2017-06-06

New features

Major changes

  • New arguments in ggpubr functions, see ggboxplot(), ggdotplot(), ggstripchart(), ggviolin(), ggbarplot() and ggline:

    • combine added to combine multiple y variables on the same graph.
    • merge to merge multiple y variables in the same ploting area.
    • select to select which item to display.
    • remove to remove a specific item from a plot.
    • order to order plot items.
    • label, font.label, label.select, repel, label.rectangle to add and customize labels
    • facet.by, panel.labs and short.panel.labs: support for faceting and customization of plot panels

  • New argument grouping.vars in ggtext(). Grouping variables to sort the data by, when the user wants to display the top n up/down labels.

  • New arguments in theme_pubr():

    • border,
    • margin,
    • legend,
    • x.text.angle

Minor changes

  • Now, the argument palette Can be also a numeric vector of length(groups); in this case a basic color palette is created using the function grDevices::palette().

Bug fixes

  • Now, ggpar() reacts to palette when length(palette) = 1 and palette is a color name #3.

  • ggmaplot() now handles situations, where there is only upregulated, or downlegulated gnes.

ggpubr 0.1.2

CRAN release: 2017-03-14

New features

  • New function get_palette() to generate a palette of k colors from ggsci palettes, RColorbrewer palettes and custom color palettes. Useful to extend RColorBrewer and ggsci to support more colors.

Minor changes

  • Now the ggpar() function can handle a list of ggplots.
  • Now the default legend position is right.
  • New argument show.legend.text in the ggscatter() function. Use show.legend.text = FALSE to hide text in the legend.
  • New arguments title, submain, subtitle, caption, font.submain, font.subtitle, font.caption in the ggpar() function.
  • New argument font.family in ggscatter().

Bug fixed

  • The mean within group for ggdensity (gghistogram) are now shown if data have NA values @chunkaowang, #1

ggpubr 0.1.1

CRAN release: 2016-12-05

New features

  • New function ggtext() for textual annotation.
  • New argument star.plot in ggscatter(). A logical value. If TRUE, a star plot is generated.
  • New helper function geom_exec(). A helper function used by ggpubr functions to execute any geom_xx functions in ggplot2. Useful only when you want to call a geom_xx function without carrying about the arguments to put in ggplot2::aes().
  • New arguments sort.val and top in ggbarplot().
    • sort.val: a string specifying whether the value should be sorted. Allowed values are “none” (no sorting), “asc” (for ascending) or “desc” (for descending).
    • top: a numeric value specifying the number of top elements to be shown.
  • New function theme_classic2() added. Classic theme with axis lines.

Minor changes

# Example
ggboxplot(iris$Sepal.Length)
  • Now, in gghistogram(), when add_density = TRUE, y scale remains = “..count..”.
  • Now, default theme changed to theme_classic2()
  • Default point size and line size set to NULL

ggpubr 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2016-07-20

Plot one variable - X: Continuous

  • ggdensity(): Density plot
  • gghistogram(): Histogram plot
  • ggecdf(): Empirical cumulative density function
  • ggqqplot(): QQ plots

Plot two variables - X & Y: Discrete X and Continuous Y

  • ggboxplot(): Box plot
  • ggviolin(): Violin plot
  • ggdotplot(): Dot plot
  • ggstripchart(): Stripchart (jitter)
  • ggbarplot(): Bar plot
  • ggline(): Line plot
  • ggerrorplot(): Error plot
  • ggpie(): Pie chart
  • ggdotchart(): Cleveland’s dot plots

Plot two continuous variables

  • ggscatter(): Scatter plot

Graphical paramters

  • ggpar(): Change graphical parameters
  • show_line_type(): Line types available in R
  • show_point_shapes(): Point shapes available in R
  • theme_pubr(): Create a publication ready theme
  • labs_pubr(): Format only plot labels to a publication ready style

Genomics

  • ggmaplot(): MA-plot from means and log fold changes

Data

  • diff_express: Differential gene expression analysis results

Other

  • desc_statby(): Descriptive statistics by groups
  • stat_chull(): Plot convex hull of a set of points
  • stat_conf_ellipse(): Plot confidence ellipses
  • stat_mean(): Draw group mean points