pedogski / diver

Direct interactive visual exploration in R

diveR

Easily Install and Load Interactive Data Visualization Tools

diveR is the looniverse of loon related packages, the great northern diver being another name (chiefly British) for the Common loon (chiefly North American).

Together the packages of the diveR suite provides data analytic tools for direct interactive visual exploration in R.

These tools work with and complement those of the tidyverse suite, completing the graphics grammar of ggplot2 to provide a grammar of interactive graphics. The suite provides many visual tools designed for moderately (100s of variables) high dimensional data analysis, through zenplots and novel tools in loon, and extends the ggplot2 grammar to provide parallel coordinates, Andrews plots, and arbitrary glyphs through ggmulti.

The diveR suite gathers together and installs all these related packages (documentation in links):

• loon

  This is the backbone package that provides the interactive graphics.

• loon.data

  Provides a rich collection of data sets to illustrate interactive graphics. It also includes several artificial data sets constructed for teaching purposes.

• zenplots

  Extends

  • the base graphics package
  • the grid graphics package
  • the loon interactive graphics package

  to allow for the layout of alternating 1d and 2d plots.

  Provides compact displays for high dimensional data (e.g., where pairs plots would be too small to be informative).

• ggmulti

  Extends the grammar of the ggplot2 package to accommodate displays such as parallel coordinate and Andrews function plots for high dimensional data.

• loon.ggplot

  Provides a bridge between the elegant but static displays of ggplot2 and the interactive direct manipulation graphics of loon

  Extends ggplot2 to provide a grammar of interactive graphics

• loon.shiny

  Enables loon plots and loon style interaction (e.g., brushing, linked plots, panning, zooming, etc., as well as a shiny version of loon inspectors) to be incorporated into a shiny application (including an RMarkdown file).

• loon.tourr

  Enables interactive multivariate data tours with loon plots. Builds on the tour engine of the tourr R package.

Documentation repeated here.