awesome-r-dataviz

Curated resources for Data Visualization, Drawing & Publishing in R.

ggplot

Additional Plot Types

• ggrgl - 3d extension to ggplot.
• waffle - Make waffle (square pie) charts in R.
• ggridges - Geoms to make ridgeline plots with ggplot2.
• ggchicklet - Create Chicklet (Rounded Segmented Column) Charts.
• ggdendro - Tools to extract dendrogram plot data for use with ggplot.
• ggcorrplot - Visualization of a correlation matrix using ggplot2. [Tutorial]
• corrgram - A simple way to create correlograms from raw data or a correlation matrix.
• ggradar - Radar charts with ggplot2 .
• ggparty - ggplot2 visualizations for the partykit package.
• ggmosaic - Mosaicplots in the ggplot2 framework.
• ggbeeswarm - Column scatter / beeswarm-style plots in ggplot2.
• ggvoronoi - Easy Voronoi diagram heatmaps with ggplot2.
• ggTimeSeries - Taking time series visualisations beyond line charts.
• ggupset - Combination matrix axis for 'ggplot2' to create 'UpSet' plots.
• UpSetR - An R implementation of the UpSet set visualization technique published by Lex, Gehlenborg, et al.
• complex-upset - A library for creating complex UpSet plots with ggplot2 geoms.
• patternplot - Versatile Pie Charts, Bar Charts and Box Plots using Patterns, Colors and Images. [Vignette]
• ggstance - Horizontal ggplot2 components.
• ggthreed - 3d geoms and stats for ggplot.
• gggibbous - Moon charts, a pie chart alternative, for ggplot2.
• ggweekly - Easy, printable, custom calendars and week planners.
• gghdr - Tools for plotting highest density regions in the ggplot2.
• ggpointdensity - Cross Between a Scatter Plot and a 2D Density Plot.
• ggstraw - geom_straw for ggplot2.
• ggVennDiagram - A 'ggplot2' implement of Venn Diagram.
• ggblur - Blurry Point Geom for ggplot2.
• ggbump - A geom for ggplot to create bump plots.
• marginsplot - plot marginal effects and predicted values using the margins and ggplot2.
• ggimg - The Missing Image Primative for ggplot2.
• ggpattern - ggplot geoms with pattern fills.
• ggfreehand - Add freehand circles to ggplot2 graphs.
• ganttrify - Create beautiful Gantt charts with ggplot2.
• ggstream - A package to make streamplots.
• bulletchartr - Builds bullet charts suitable for tracking KPIs.
• treemapify - Draw treemaps in ggplot2.
• ggborderline - Make line plots that pop.
• ggbraid - Braid two lines and a ribbon in ggplot2.

Themes

• ggthemr - Themes for ggplot2.
• ggthemes - Additional themes, scales, and geoms for ggplot2.
• ggpomological - Pomological plot theme for ggplot2 .
• ggtech - ggplot2 tech themes, scales, and geoms .
• hrbrthemes - Opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes and theme components.
• vapoRwave - Vaporwave themes and color palettes for ggplot2.
• tvthemes - ggplot2 themes and palettes based on your favorite TV shows.
• Rokemon - Pokemon themed R package.
• visibly - Functions related to R visualizations.
• xkcd - Graphs using the XKCD style (a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language). [Tutorial]
• ggrough - Convert ggplot2 chart to roughjs.
• ggCorpIdent - A package for ggplot2 graphics in corporate design with custom fonts, colors and logo. [Tutorial]

Palettes 🎨

• paletteer - Collection of most color palettes in a single R package.
• randomcoloR - An R package for generating attractive and distinctive colors.
• fishualize - Color scales based on nature’s most stunning and colorful organisms: teleost fishes.
• harrypotter - A Harry Potter inspired palette for R.
• wesanderson - A Wes Anderson color palette for R.
• nationalparkcolors - R package for color themes inspired by national parks.
• dutchmasters - Colour palettes derived from famous paintings by 17th century Dutch masters.
• pals - Color Palettes and Palette Evaluation Tools.
• jcolors - A set of color palettes I like (or can at least tolerate).
• shades - Simple colour manipulation in R. [Tutorial]
• colorspace - A toolbox for manipulating and assessing colors and palettes.
• tinter - Get tints and shades (and both) of a colour.
• colormind - Generate Color Palettes With AI (using colormind.io palette generator).
• farver - High Performance Colourspace Manipulation in R.
• tricolore - A flexible color scale for ternary compositions.
• colorfindr - Extracts colors from various image types, plots treemaps and 3D scatterplots.

Domain-specific

• ggparliament - Simple parliament plots using ggplot2.
• ggsoccer - Plot soccer event data in R/ggplot2.
• soccermatics - Tools for visualisation and analysis of soccer tracking and event data.
• gganatogram - Create anatograms using ggplot2.
• rchess - Chess package for R.
• brickr - 3D LEGO models and mosaics from images using R and tidyverse.
• desplot - Functions for plotting experimental designs of field trials in agriculture.
• kinship2 - Pedigree creation, plotting, and analytics. [Vignette]
• GeomMLBStadiums - Geoms to draw MLB stadiums in ggplot2.
• ggpacman - A ggplot2 and gganimate Version of Pac-Man.
• gglcd - About Programmatic production of Liquid Crystal alignment diagrams.
• econocharts - Microeconomic graphs in ggplot2.
• sportyR - R package for drawing regulation playing surfaces for several sports.
• treeheatr - Heatmap-integrated Decision Tree Visualizations.
• gggenes - Draw gene arrow maps in ggplot2.
• ggseqplot - R library for visualizing (social science) sequence data using ggplot2.

Text

• ggtext - Improved text rendering support for ggplot2.
• ggfittext - ggplot2 geoms to fit text into boxes.
• wordcloud2 - R interface to wordcloud for data visualization.
• ggrepel - Repel overlapping text labels away from each other.
• shadowtext - Shadow Text Grob and Layer. [Vignette]
• geomtextpath - Create curved text paths in ggplot2.
• ggpath - Enables robust image grobs in panels and theme elements.

• Animations

• gganimate - A Grammar of Animated Graphics.
• animation - A gallery of animations in statistics and utilities to create animations.
• tweenr - A package for interpolating data, mainly for animations.
• transformr - Smooth Polygon Transformations.

Devices

• Cairo - Graphics device using cairographics library for creating bitmap images or output.
• devout - Write R graphics output devices in plain R.
• devoutsvg - Bespoke SVG graphics output device with pattern fill support.
• devoutpdf - A hand-crafted PDF graphics output device written in plain R.
• devoutaudio - An R graphics device which renders to audio.
• devoid - A Graphic Device That Does Nothing (suitable for benchmarking functions).
• devoutrgl - R graphics device to render to {rgl}.
• ragg - AGG provides both higher performance and higher quality than the standard raster devices provided by grDevices.

Miscellaneous

• ggpmisc - Miscellaneous Extensions to ggplot2.
• ggExtra - Marginal histograms to ggplot2, and more ggplot2 enhancements.
• ggreverse - Reverse a ggplot object back into code.
• datalegreyar - The typeface that melts text and data visualisation for R markdown.
• dbplot - Simplifies plotting of database and sparklyr data.
• ggalt - Extra Coordinate Systems, Geoms, Statistical Transformations & Scales for 'ggplot2'.
• ggpubr - 'ggplot2' Based Publication Ready Plots.
• patchwork - The Composer of ggplots.
• ggally - R package that extends ggplot2. [Tutorial]
• ggforce - Accelerating ggplot2. [Tutorial 1] [Tutorial 2]
• gghighlight - Highlight points and lines in ggplot2.
• ggnomics - A small project to add ggplot2 extensions.
• facetscales - facet_grid with different scales per facet.
• ggflags - flag geom for ggplot2.
• ggecho - ggplot2 stat for echoing data.
• ggfx - Filters and Shaders for 'ggplot2'.
• ggboy - Simulating Game Boy DMG-01 graphics.
• ggframe - data frames that print as ggplots.
• ggwrap - Wrap ggplot2 plots over multiple rows.
• ggsvg - Use SVG images as ggplot points.
• ggblend - Support for blend modes in ggplot2.
• easyalluvial - Create alluvial plots with a single line of code.
• parcats - htmlwidget that creates plotly parallel categories diagrams from easyalluvial plots.

Interactive plots

• plotly - An interactive graphing library for R.
• rbokeh - R interface to Bokeh.
• ggiraph - Make 'ggplot' graphics interactive.
• highcharter - R wrapper for highcharts based on htmlwidgets.
• dygraphs - R interface to dygraphs.
• rCharts - Interactive JS Charts from R.
• billboarder - R Htmlwidget for billboard.js.
• scatterD3 - R scatter plot htmlwidget based on D3.js.
• trelliscopejs - TrelliscopeJS R Package.
• googleVis - Interface between R and the Google Chart Tools.

Network Visualization

• geomnet - Network Visualization in the ggplot2 Framework.
• graphlayouts - New layout algorithms for network visualizations in R.
• visNetwork - R package, using vis.js library for network visualization.
• ggraph - Grammar of Graph Graphics.
• ggdag - An R package for working with causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs).

Spatial Visualization

• ggmap - A package for plotting maps in R with ggplot2.
• tmap - R package for thematic maps.
• leaflet - R Interface to Leaflet Maps.
• globe4r - Interactive globe visualisations.
• urbnmapr - State and county maps with Alaska and Hawaii.
• cartography - Thematic Cartography. [Vignette]
• mapextrud - Build Extruded Maps in R.
• geofacet - R package for geographical faceting with ggplot2.
• zonebuilder - Divide geographic space into discrete chunks.

Tables

• formattable - Formattable Data Structures.
• kableExtra - Construct Complex Table with knitr::kable() + pipe.
• gt - Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R.
• DT - R Interface to the jQuery Plug-in DataTables.
• mmtable2 - Allows you to create and combine tables with a ggplot2/patchwork syntax.

Publishing

• blogdown - Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown.
• bookdown - Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown.
• posterdown - Use RMarkdown to generate PDF Conference Posters via HTML.

Drawing & Rendering

• magick - Advanced Image-Processing in R. [Tutorial]
• bunny - Useful helper functions for working with magick.
• threed - Three-Dimensional Object Transformations.
• svgpatternusgs - SVG patterns from the U.S. Geological Survey for use within R.
• ggtextures - Drawing textured rectangles and bars with ggplot.
• isocubes - An isometric rendering canvas with cubes as the only graphics primitive.
• rayshader - R Package for 2D and 3D mapping and data visualization.
• rayrender - A raytracer for R. Based on Peter Shirley's "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" book series.
• rayfocus - Add depth of field to images.
• rayshaderanimate - Animate GPX data on a 3D map.
• raytrix - Provides a spatial framework and convenience functions for acessing and translating spatial data.
• rayvista - An R plugin for {rayshader} to view a 3D vista anywhere on earth.

Others

• lattice - High-level data visualization system inspired by Trellis graphics,.
• latticeExtra - Extensions for lattice package.

Learning

Tutorials

• Be Awesome in ggplot2: A Practical Guide to be Highly Effective - R software and data visualization.
• A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting in R
• A pole vaulting example
• The Evolution of a ggplot
• Introduction to Network Analysis with R. Creating static and interactive network graphs

Books

• Data Visualization with R by Rob Kabacoff.
• Data Visualization. A practical introduction by Kieran Healy.
• Circular Visualization in R by Zuguang Gu.
• Fundamentals of Data Visualization by Claus O. Wilke.
• Geocomputation with R: Chapter 8 Making maps with R by Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad and Jannes Muenchow.
• Essentials of color in R from. Chapter from Data Science for Psychologists by Hansjörg Neth

How to...?

Plots

• Create infographics in R
  • Create infographics with R
  • How to Layout and Design an Infographic
  • How to Create Infographics in R
• Plot wind directions with arrows
• Plot Bump Chart
• Fill area with an image
  • Use an image as area fill in an R plot (StackOverflow)
  • Overlay de imagenes sobre areas en ggplot (in Spanish)
• Add custom fonts to ggplot
• Add images to the plot
• Plot Bubble Packed Chart
• Create waterfall chart with ggplot2
• Make xkcd style graphs
• Visualize Self-Organizing Map
• Use emojis as scatterplot points
• Make calendar with ggplot
• Drawing a basketball court with R
• Draw a Gantt chart

Maps

• Connections on the map [remarks]
• 3D Lego Map and visualize Columbus Voyage - Rayshade rWalkthrough [GIF]
• Subplots in maps with ggplot2
• Bivariate maps with ggplot2 and sf

Drawing

• Create hex sticker
  • Making hex and twittercard with bunny and magick
  • gganimate your hex
• Draw Animated TIE Fighter
• Making an animated contour plot
• Draw a clock
• Radial patterns in ggplot2 by Ijeamakaanyene

Animations

• Download and Animate Polar Ice Data in R with Rayrender

Inspirations

Recreating Visualizations

• Minard's famous plot of Napoleon's 1812 retreat from Russia
• ggplot2 meets W. E. B. Du Bois - Visualizing 1900s Black American life in R.
• W. E. Du Bois remakes by Ella Hollowood.
• dataRbeautiful - Recreating data visualizations from "Knowledge is Beautiful" by David McCandless.
• Flowingdata Animated Population Chart
• Recreate The Economist: Global Terrorism Index Plot
• Recreating the vaccination heatmaps in R
• You can replicate almost any plot with R
• Recreating the Datasaurus Dozen Using tweenr and ggplot2
• RedGreenGreyDots patient flow dotplot
• Plot recreations by mohdbilal87

Tidytuesday

• by Karamanis
• by Z3tt
• by abichat
• by Ijeamakaanyene

30 Days Map Challenge

• by Z3tt
• by ThomasG77
• by Matt Malishev

Art

• Fronkonstin
• flametree

R Plot Gallery

• The R Graph Gallery - Help and inspiration for R charts.
• Top 50 ggplot2 Visualizations - The Master List (With Full R Code)
• Data Movies and ggplot2
• Leaders’ Ages
• Regional population structures at a glance
• Population age structures of Europe NUTS-3 regions and the US counties

Other

• Data Sketch - Many inspiring data visualizations.
• Recapping radials
• Beautiful Visualizations from Reddit’s DataViz Battle Competition
• Timelines and Visual Histories - Historical visualizations.
• FlowingData - Data Visualizaion ideas and tutorials, i.a. using R.
• MakeoverMonday - Data Visualization weekly learning (mostly using Tableau).