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holgerbrandl / kravis

A {K}otlin g{ra}mmar for data {vis}ualization
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Why R ggplot2 over Vega-Lite or XChart #21

Closed ValdarT closed 3 years ago

ValdarT commented 5 years ago

Hi

Thank you for your work on the data science tooling in Kotlin!

I see you implemented experimental backends for Vega-Lite and XCharts, too, but decided to stay with calling R and ggplot2. I'm curious what was the reason for this, because, at first sight, this seems the least optimal due to introducing the dependency on R and missing out on the interactiveness of Vega?

holgerbrandl commented 3 years ago

I was just way more familiar with ggplot compared to vega. Everyone lives in a bubble, and mine was more ggplot.

The dependency on R is not pretty I agree, in particular, since it does not seem possible to bundle R in a jar. Still, ggplot is superior to any other scientific visualization package I know. That's why I think it's worth the compromise.