NEWS

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rDeckgl 0.1.0 (2026-06-01)

Initial Release

• Initial CRAN submission
• Core deck.gl visualization functionality
• DuckDB-backed data hydration
• Shiny integration with deckglOutput() and renderDeckgl()
• Support for JSON and YAML specifications
• Automatic format detection
• Examples for common deck.gl layer types

Features

• Visualization: Full deck.gl 9.2.2 support via htmlwidgets
• Data Backend: Server-side SQL queries via DuckDB
• Formats: JSON, YAML, and R list specifications
• Shiny: Reactive bindings for interactive applications
• Performance: Efficient handling of large datasets (millions of rows)

Documentation

• Added comprehensive README
• Created getting-started vignette
• Documented all exported functions
• Added examples for scatterplot, hexagon, and polygon layers