Status of vegalite for R ?

[firasm]

Hello !

I wanted to do a quick check on the status of this effort here - I know this is a distinct effort from the altair package and this effort aims to build a native interface in R. But my question is do you think this package will keep pace with Vega-lite (it's currently at 4.17)?

I am trying to think about the pros and cons of a package that relies on reticulate and a python installation, vs. a native one such as this. To be clear, I am totally aware that maintaining a package such as this is an enormous effort and I'm not trying to demand anything, just trying to understand the intricacies of one approach vs. the other.

[hrbrmstr]

{altair} seems to be the moving-forward center of gravity on Vega-lite + R, so no further work will be one on this repo.

This is a good reminder (#ty!) that I should archive it.