ggsave or other means of saving plots from TidierPlots.jl

[joshualeond]

Hi there, I'm trying out TidierPlots.jl and was wondering if there's a recommended way to save a plot?

Thanks!

[joshualeond]

I see we can get there from using CairoMakie and AlgebraOfGraphics like below but if there's a better route I'm definitely curious to know. Thanks!

p1 = @ggplot(penguins, aes(x = bill_length_mm, y = bill_depth_mm, color = species)) + 
    @geom_point() + 
    @geom_smooth(method = "lm") +
    @scale_x_log10(name = "Log10 Scaled Bill Length") + 
    @scale_y_reverse(name = "Reversed Bill Width")

# https://aog.makie.org/stable/generated/penguins/#Small-intermezzo:-saving-the-plot
CairoMakie.save("figure.png", AlgebraOfGraphics.draw(Layers(p1)), px_per_unit = 3)

[kdpsingh]

We should absolutely add this. If @rdboyes doesn't have bandwidth, will see if someone else on our team can help with an initial implementation.

[rdboyes]

I don't have the bandwidth this month (unfortunately dissertations don't write themselves) - ideal implementation is probably to add a version of save that takes a GGPlot type. Under the hood it should pretty much work like the code @joshualeond has above. Tagging this as a good first issue since it's pretty straightforward and self-contained, if nobody does it before the end of the month I'll work on it!

[rdboyes]

Or maybe for consistency it should be a macro? @ggsave? Both?

[kdpsingh]

I would keep it as a macro @ggsave() just for consistency with the rest of Tidier and TidierPlots.

[rdboyes]

added in 33238a3