NEWS

ggplate 0.3.1 (2026-05-11)

Fixed a bug that was introduced with the last version. Row labels were NA when no complete dataset was provided.

The plate_plot() function now supports 1536-well plates with the "Aa-Hd" row label format in addition to the "A-AF" format.

Fix issue #27. If limits were used to exclude values, no labels could be displayed for those wells. Limits were never intended to exclude values, but even if not intended this works now as expected.
As part of the above fix, two new arguments were added to the function:
- na_fill is the colour used to fill NA wells. This is by default "grey50".
- remove_na is a logical value that specifies if NA values should be removed from the value column of the input data. By default it is TRUE keeping the original behaviour, but it now allows users to keep NA values.

Fix issue #23. If not all possible rows were part of the data, wells were shifted down to the bottom of the plate. This has been fixed and every well is in the correct position irrespective of the completeness of the data.

Fix issue #20. The previous fix inadvertently introduced another bug, which flipped the row order. This has been fixed now.

Fix issue #20. Row labels were not displayed with ggplot2 update 3.5.1. This was because ylim cannot be provided in reverse order anymore in ggplot2::coord_fixed(). Now letters for row labels are provided in reverse order instead.

Fix R version requirement. Is now 4.1.0 and not 4.0.0 anymore. This fixes issue #15.
Fix issue introduced in version 0.1.0. While attempting to remove trailing zeros, we inadvertently introduced some undesired side effects associated with the format() function. This resulted in incorrectly formatted text labels due to leading and trailing whitespaces.
Update documentation to inform about conda package version.
Update documentation to inform about potentially undesired behavior of new graphics device being opened by function when used in command line. This can be suppressed by setting scale argument.

Fixed a bug with the value argument that would not allow the user to provide a character column with only one value. This fixes issue #10.
Fixed a bug with the label argument that would discard trailing 0 of numeric values. This fixes issue #6.