This is pretty darn interesting new release from Thomas Lin Pedersen and team at Posit (the company behind RStudio): ggsql, a SQL-fied take on the grammar of graphics approach to data visualization made famous by ggplot2. As a veteran ggplot user myself, I will definitely be checking it out. For production-ready plots, I am not sure if it will be easier to fiddle with syntax for things like label sizes and axis ticks in SQL rather than R, but for the exploratory phase of data analysis, I can immediately see the appeal.
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