Category: d3
Everything filed under d3.
Making Static/Interactive Voronoi Map Layers In ggplot/leaflet
Despite having shown various ways to overcome D3 cartographic envy , there are always more examples that can cause the green monster to rear it's ugly…
Two pending features to metricsgraphics
I've been slowly prodding the metricsgraphics package towards a 1.0.0 release, but there are some rough edges that still need sorting out. One of them is the ability to handle passing in variables for the x & y accessor values (you can…
metricsgraphics 0.8.5 is now on CRAN!
I'm super-pleased to announce that the Benevolent CRAN Overlords accepted the metricsgraphics package into CRAN over the weekend. Now, you no longer need to rely on github/devtools to use MetricsGraphics.js charts from your R scripts. If…
A quick, incomplete comparison of ggplot2 & rbokeh plotting idioms
I set aside a small bit of time to give rbokeh a try and figured I'd share a small bit of code that shows how to make the "same" chart in both ggplot2 and…
Streamgraph htmlwidget version 0.7 released (adds support for markers & annotations)
In preparation for using some of our streamgraphs for production (PDF/print) graphics, I ended up having to hand-edit labels in on one of the graphics in an Adobe product. This bumped up the priority on adding annotation functions to the…
Streamgraph package now supports continuous x axis scale
A post on StackOverflow asked about using a continuous variable for the x-axis (vs dates) in my streamgraph package. While I provided a workaround for the question, it helped me bump up the priority for adding support for continuous x axis…
Introducing the streamgraph htmlwidget R Package
We were looking for a different type of visualization for a project at work this past week and my thoughts immediately gravitated towards streamgraphs. The TLDR on streamgraphs is they they are generalized versions of stacked area graphs…
New release (0.7) of metricsgraphics htmlwidget — grids & rollovers
I've updated my metricsgraphics package to version 0.7. The core MetricsGraphics JavaScript library has been updated to version 2.1.0 (from 1.1.0). Two blog-worthy features since releasing version 0.5 are mjsgrid (which is a…
New R Package: metricsgraphics
Mozilla released the MetricsGraphics.js library back in November of 2014 (gh repo) and was greeted with great fanfare. It's primary focus is on crisp, clean layouts for interactive time-series data, but they have support for other chart…
Moving The Earth (well, Alaska & Hawaii) With R
In a previous post we looked at how to use D3 TopoJSON files with R and make some very D3-esque maps. I mentioned that one thing missing was moving Alaska & Hawaii a bit closer to the continental United States and this post shows you how…