I've been hard at work updating our entire text rendering stack in #RStats

Read about the relevant improvements in systemfonts, textshaping, and marquee in this rundown.

The tldr; is that marquee is now ready for primetime

Other large quality-of-life improvements are build-in support for web fonts and easier access to fonts that aren't installed on the system.

Put `require_font(<font name>)` in your script and it will fetch and load it if it isn't already available
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01/text-rendering-updates/

We've now released the #rstats package, {geotargets}, version 0.2.0!

Thanks to @LeafyEricScott for making this release possible!

In this release {geotargets} can now do dynamic branching over a raster, which is quite awesome. See https://www.njtierney.com/post/2024/11/27/geotargets-0-2-0/ for more details and http://geotargets.njtierney.com/ to browse our vignettes.

We also have a new hex sticker! Thank you to Hubert Hałun for this lovely sticker!

If you are using {geotargets} and are able to share a repository where you've used it, we'd love to see it so we can share a growing page of "geotargets in the wild"