dplyr VS ggplot2

Compare dplyr vs ggplot2 and see what are their differences.

ggplot2

An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R (by tidyverse)
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dplyr ggplot2
40 62
4,652 6,316
0.7% 1.2%
7.4 9.4
22 days ago 8 days ago
R R
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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dplyr

Posts with mentions or reviews of dplyr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-15.

ggplot2

Posts with mentions or reviews of ggplot2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dplyr and ggplot2 you can also consider the following projects:

worldfootballR - A wrapper for extracting world football (soccer) data from FBref, Transfermark, Understat and fotmob

Altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python

Rustler - Safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions

tmap - R package for thematic maps

nx - Multi-dimensional arrays (tensors) and numerical definitions for Elixir

vega - A visualization grammar.

explorer - Series (one-dimensional) and dataframes (two-dimensional) for fast and elegant data exploration in Elixir

rmarkdown - Dynamic Documents for R

glue - Glue strings to data in R. Small, fast, dependency free interpreted string literals.

Pandas - Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

deneb - Deneb is a custom visual for Microsoft Power BI, which allows developers to use the declarative JSON syntax of the Vega or Vega-Lite languages to create their own data visualizations.