RStudio for R Statistical Computing Cookbook

Chapter 4. Advanced and Interactive Visualization

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Producing a Sankey diagram with the networkD3 package
• Creating a dynamic force network with the visNetwork package
• Building a rotating 3D graph and exporting it as a GIF
• Using the DiagrammeR package to produce a process flow diagram in RStudio

Introduction

A legendary tale says that Michelangelo found his Moses so real; and shouted at him "Why don’t you speak?!" Seeing that it wouldn’t, he slammed it down with his hammer.

Michelangelo's Mosè. Picture by Jörg Bittner Unna, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46476418

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