September 2018
Beginner
206 pages
4h 27m
English
Content preview from R Programming Fundamentals
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Plotly
Plotly is an R package designed to allow you to create interactive plots online. It integrates with ggplot2, which we also learned in this chapter, and can be implemented in a number of programming languages as well, including Scala, Python, and Node.js.
We can view a few of these demos on the Plotly website, such as Dashboards under Plotly Fundamentals. We can see a full dashboard of Plotly charts load, including a plot of the diamonds dataset in the upper left, a bar chart next to it, a map of the United States, a heat map, a histogram, and more. Navigate to the Plotly R site and click on the map demo:
What makes Plotly special is ...