Highcharter is a R wrapper for Highcharts javascript library and its modules. Highcharts is very flexible and customizable javascript charting library and it has a great and powerful API.
The main features of highcharter are:
- Chart various R objects with one function: with
hchart(x)you can chartdata.frames,numericorcharactervectors,ts,xts,forecast,survfitobjects. - Support Highstock You can create a candlestick charts in 2 lines
of code. Support
xtsclass from the {quantmod} package. - Support Highmaps Create choropleth charts or add
information in
geojsonformat. - Themes: you configure your chart in multiples ways. There are implemented themes like economist, financial times, google, 538 among others.
- A lot of features and plugins: motion, draggable points, font-awesome, tooltips, annotations.
CRAN version:
install.packages("highcharter")Development version:
remotes::install_github("jbkunst/highcharter")There are a lot of vignettes to show how highcharter works and what you can do:
vignette("highcharter")to explore the basics of the package.vignette("first-steps")to know how to make a visualization from a data frame.vignette("showcase")to see highcharts flexibility in terms of customization and design.vignette("highcharts-api")show the main functions to configure charts with the implemented Highcharts API.vignette("highchartsjs-api-basics")explain the relationship between the highchartsJS API and highcharter.
Highcharter has a dependency on Highcharts, a commercial JavaScript charting library. Highcharts offers both a commercial license as well as a free non-commercial license. Please review the licensing options and terms before using this software, as the highcharter license neither provides nor implies a license for Highcharts.
Highcharts (https://highcharts.com) is a Highsoft product which is not free for commercial and Governmental use.
Highsoft provide a discount to the highcharter users. It is a 50% discount on our Single Developer license. More details in https://newsletter.highcharts.com/foss/.