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This is a major release. Here is a list of major improvements (from v1.0.3):

• Add WebSocket for R-JavaScript interop (i.e. R functions and packages can be used)
• Add support to transpiling error handling keywords
• Switch from a mixed S3-R6 OOP to pure R6 OOP
• Add safeguard to perform pre-transpilation check automatically
• Support per-file transpiler configuration
• Optimise transpiler performance (>100X faster for large files)
• Add "testthat" module for testing sketch applications
• Add support to loading resources from Content Delivery Network (CDN) (10~100X smaller file size)

We are very happy to introduce the R package sketch for creating animated and interactive visualisation in R! Sketch lets users develop JavaScript-style visualisations using the R syntax by transpiling R code into JavaScript code. It is designed to help

• researchers create domain specific visualisation to support development and sharing of research,
• journalists and science communicators publish high-quality and engaging interactive graphics,
• business users make customised in-house dashboards and reports, and
• general users learn generative arts and interactive data visualisation.

Sketch works with any JavaScript library (including d3, p5, vegalite, threejs and leaflet), integrates with R Markdown document and Shiny for easy deployment, and supports a wide range of customisation options.

We are grateful that this project is supported by the R Consortium ISC grant, and sketch is now available on CRAN (stable version) and on GitHub (development version).