xkcd: Plotting 'ggplot2' Graphics in an 'XKCD' Style

Provides custom geoms and themes to create charts and graphics in the distinctive, hand-drawn 'XKCD' webcomic style using the 'ggplot2' framework. The package utilizes custom layers for jittered lines, segments, circles, and figures, and includes a theme that supports the necessary 'XKCD' font.

Version: 0.1.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.0), ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.0)
Imports: Hmisc, stats, grid, extrafont
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, zoo, reshape, splancs, pkgdown, palmerpenguins, dplyr, ggrepel, systemfonts, covr, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-08-20
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.xkcd
Author: Emilio Torres-Manzanera [aut], Enrique Toledo [ctb, cre]
Maintainer: Enrique Toledo <enriquetoledo at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ToledoEM/xkcd/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/ToledoEM/xkcd, https://toledoem.github.io/xkcd/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: xkcd results

Documentation:

Reference manual: xkcd.html , xkcd.pdf
Vignettes: xkcd figure: The Stick Figure Guide (source, R code)
xkcd: XKCD Style Graphics (source, R code)
Palmer Penguins with xkcd (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: xkcd_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: xkcd_0.1.0.zip, r-release: xkcd_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: xkcd_0.1.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): xkcd_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): xkcd_0.1.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): xkcd_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): xkcd_0.1.1.tgz
Old sources: xkcd archive

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