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Top 3 R Visualisation Projects
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Pardon me for shooting from the hip here, but IMO if you're using R for something radically different than statistical analysis and data visualization, there might be another tool/language that's more purpose-suited.
> As someone who basically uses R as a nice LISP-y scripting language to orchestrate calling low-level compiled code from other languages
When I read this, I think, would `bash` or something equally portable/universally installed work?
R is a beautiful thing when limited to its core uses (I use it every day ([0]). But in my experience, the more we build away from those core uses, the more brittleness we introduce. I wish the Posit team would focus on the core R experience, resolve some of the hundreds of open issues on its core packages in a timely way, [1,2] and just generally play to R's strengths.
[0] https://github.com/hsflabstanford/vegan-meta
[1] https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues
[2] https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
R Visualisation discussion
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Debugging Compiled Code for R with Positron
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Show HN: Create Music with R
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ggplot2
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Ask HN: How do you build diagrams for the web?
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Visualizing shapefiles in R with sf and ggplot2!
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Relative frequency of letters in five-letter English words (Wordle aid) [OC]
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[OC] U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges: 2002 to 2023
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Visualisation projects in R? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ggplot2 | 6,727 |
| 2 | tmap | 887 |
| 3 | cryptocurrency-analysis | 288 |
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