ggplot2 is great as a high level plotting library, though as soon as you want to do something slightly different you end up in the rats nest that is grob and gg

ggplot2 is great as a high level plotting library, though as soon as you want to do something slightly different you end up in the rats nest that is grob and ggproto (because 3 OOP systems aren't enough, so let's create an entirely new one just for this library). I normally give up and tolerate matplotlib instead.