ggsketch: Grammar-Native Hand-Drawn Geoms for 'ggplot2'

Provides 'ggplot2' geoms that render with a hand-drawn, sketchy aesthetic: roughened strokes, double-pass lines, and hachure, cross-hatch, zigzag, and dots fill patterns. Implemented as pure-R 'grid' grobs wrapped in 'ggproto' geoms, composable with aes(), stats, scales, and faceting. Works on every R graphics device (PDF, PNG, SVG, screen) with no browser dependency. Algorithms are reimplemented from the published 'rough.js' algorithm description (Shihn, 2020, <https://shihn.ca/posts/2020/roughjs-algorithms/>) and Wood and others (2012, <doi:10.1109/TVCG.2012.262>); see the NOTICE file in the package sources for attribution.

Version:	2.0.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	cli (≥ 3.4.0), ggplot2 (≥ 3.5.0), grDevices, grid, rlang (≥ 1.0.0), scales (≥ 1.2.0), withr (≥ 2.5.0)
Suggests:	gganimate, gifski, hexbin, igraph, knitr, magick, MASS, patchwork, quantreg, ragg, rmarkdown, sf, svglite, systemfonts, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), vdiffr (≥ 1.0.0)
Published:	2026-07-17
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.ggsketch (may not be active yet)
Author:	Arijit Ghosh [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Arijit Ghosh <arijitghosh2009 at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/orijitghosh/ggsketch/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/orijitghosh/ggsketch, https://orijitghosh.github.io/ggsketch/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	ggsketch results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	ggsketch.html , ggsketch.pdf
Vignettes:	Getting started with ggsketch (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	ggsketch_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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