ggplot2 VS ggtext

Compare ggplot2 vs ggtext and see what are their differences.

ggplot2

An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R (by tidyverse)

ggtext

Improved text rendering support for ggplot2 (by wilkelab)
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ggplot2 ggtext
62 7
6,316 644
1.2% 2.8%
9.4 0.0
7 days ago 4 months ago
R R
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

ggtext

Posts with mentions or reviews of ggtext. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-24.

What are some alternatives?

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

Altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python

tmap - R package for thematic maps

vega - A visualization grammar.

dplyr - dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation

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

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

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.

mirt - Multidimensional item response theory

her-majesty-php - Britanised edition of PHP

ggshadow - A collection of geoms for R's 'ggplot2' library. geom_shadowpath(), geom_shadowline(), geom_shadowstep() and geom_shadowpoint() functions draw a shadow below lines to make busy plots more aesthetically pleasing. geom_glowpath(), geom_glowline(), geom_glowstep() and geom_glowpoint() add a neon glow around lines to get a steampunk style.

fontawesome - Easily insert FontAwesome icons into R Markdown docs and Shiny apps

postcss-spiffing - PostCSS plugin to use British English