readr VS ggplot2

Compare readr vs ggplot2 and see what are their differences.

readr

Read flat files (csv, tsv, fwf) into R (by tidyverse)

ggplot2

An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R (by tidyverse)
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readr ggplot2
1 62
991 6,316
0.7% 1.2%
6.0 9.4
14 days ago 7 days ago
R R
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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readr

Posts with mentions or reviews of readr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Is it safe to use the error handling features of C++ with Rcpp?
    1 project | /r/rstats | 28 Jan 2023
    If you use these error handling features, it does leave things in memory. I believe it’s only for objects you have allocated from c++, so may not be a big deal. For example, here’s where I noticed it in readr, which is presumably fixed now that they use rcpp11 https://github.com/tidyverse/readr/issues/757

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 readr and ggplot2 you can also consider the following projects:

evaluate - A version of eval for R that returns more information about what happened

Altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python

parquetize - R package that allows to convert databases of different formats to parquet format

tmap - R package for thematic maps

r4ds - R for data science: a book

vega - A visualization grammar.

tidyethnicnews - R package for turning Ethnic NewsWatch search results into tidyverse-ready dataframes

dplyr - dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation

awesome-R - A curated list of awesome R packages, frameworks and software.

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.