Supplementary compatibility updates for ggpubr (Kassambara, 2023): Modern R ecosystem support (ggplot2 ≥3.5.2, dplyr ≥1.1.0, tidyr ≥1.3.0, R ≥4.1.0) — to be cited with the original package

ggpubrplus 0.7.0

Supplementary compatibility updates for ggpubr (Kassambara, 2023), providing modern R ecosystem support.

Requirements

• R ≥ 4.1.0
• ggplot2 ≥ 3.5.2
• dplyr ≥ 1.1.0
• tidyr ≥ 1.3.0

Issues Addressed

This release addresses 9 issues from the original ggpubr repository:

• #656, #654, #644 - border() size deprecation warning
• #645 - Deprecation in ggplot2 3.4.0
• #572 - compare_means() error with ref.group and anova
• #552 - ggviolin missing adjust parameter
• #536 - tidyr 1.3.0 release notice
• #512 - stat_cor() OutDec locale issue
• #490 - ggdensity missing bw parameter

Key Changes

• Replaced deprecated size with linewidth for line-based geoms
• Replaced deprecated aes_string() with aes() + .data pronoun
• Replaced deprecated dplyr functions (do(), summarise_at(), funs())
• Replaced deprecated tidyr functions (gather(), spread())
• Added clean_lock_files() utility for handling stale lock directories

Citation

Please cite the original package:

Kassambara A (2023). ggpubr: 'ggplot2' Based Publication Ready Plots. R package version 0.6.0.
and
Erdey L. (2026): Supplementary compatibility updates for ggpubr (Kassambara, 2023): Modern R ecosystem support (ggplot2 ≥3.5.2, dplyr ≥1.1.0, tidyr ≥1.3.0, R ≥4.1.0) — to be cited with the original package. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18131490

This fork is maintained by Laszlo Erdey (University of Debrecen, Hungary).

Pull request submitted to original package: https://github.com/kassambara/ggpubr/pull/657