nteetor / chartisan

chartist.js R package (3rd times a charm?)

chartisan

Produce chartist.js charts from R.

development of chartisan is on hold as I turn my visualization attention to golly

my thoughts

1. I am aware there are a couple chartist.js R projects out there. The projects in question do not meet certain criteria for me.
2. This project is intended for use with dull and needs to end up on CRAN. (neither of the previous chartist R projects are on CRAN at the time I wrote this).
3. I hope to mimic much of what was built into ggvis.
4. Finally, the accessibility plugin for Chartist has me intrigued. Recently I have had to develop 508 applications and would love to create a way to build compliant visulizations from R.

your concerns?

Right now there's a lot of room for anything, so let me know your thoughts or feelings in a issue.

installation

Currently, chartisan is only available for installation from GitHub. In the future chartisan may be submitted to CRAN (think waaaay in the future).

devtools::install_github("nteetor/chartisan")

examples

The following example generates a simple chart, displayed in a shiny application.

library(chartisan)

my_chart <- iris %>%
 chartist(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width) %>%
 layer_line() %>%
 layer_ratio_5_8()
 
my_chart

chartisan's Issues

line, point, and area charts

Points and areas charts are a subset of line charts within the chartis designs.

See the showLine, showPoint, and showArea options here.

Thus, layer_line, layer_point, and layer_area may end up quite similar.

In my current design, data manipulation will occur at the very final stages of the chartisan process. This is subject to change and discussion. The result of that discussion may change how similar generating line, point, or area charts becomes.