RStudio for R Statistical Computing Cookbook

Producing a Sankey diagram with the networkD3 package

A Sankey diagram is a really powerful way of displaying your data. Particularly, Sankey diagrams are a really convenient way of showing flows of data from their origin to their end.

A really famous example of these kind of diagrams is the one presented by Charles Minard's 1869 chart showing the number of men in Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign army, their movements, as well as the temperature they encountered on the return path:

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram#/media/File:Minard.png

In a Sankey diagram, a given amount is shown on the leftmost side of the plot and, while moving ...