ggnext: A Next-Generation Grammar of Graphics
An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics described by
Wilkinson (2005, ISBN:978-0-387-24544-7), built on 'S7' classes. The
familiar grammar vocabulary of aesthetics, geometries, statistics,
scales, coordinates, facets and themes composed with '+' is
preserved; every constructor that takes an argument also accepts a
plot as the first argument of a native pipe ('|>') stage, so the two
styles are interchangeable. The package is extended with built-in
interactivity, animation, an exact-data export, a plot linter that
flags common statistical-graphics mistakes before a figure ships,
and a catalogue covering layout diagrams (Sankey, treemap, network,
radar), machine-learning diagnostics (SHAP, receiver operating
characteristic, calibration, partial dependence) and clinical
reporting (Kaplan-Meier, forest, swimmer, CONSORT).
Static output is written to Scalable Vector Graphics; interactive
output is a self-contained 'HTML' document using a canvas element
and vanilla 'JavaScript'. Both render targets consume the same
computed-geometry buffer, giving a single source of truth for layer
geometry. Layout and estimation algorithms follow their published
descriptions, including Bruls, Huizing and van Wijk (2000)
<doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-6783-0_4> for squarified treemaps,
Fruchterman and Reingold (1991) <doi:10.1002/spe.4380211102> for
force-directed graphs, and Kaplan and Meier (1958)
<doi:10.1080/01621459.1958.10501452> for survival curves.
| Version: |
0.1.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: |
S7, grDevices, stats, utils |
| Suggests: |
knitr, markdown, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), xml2 |
| Published: |
2026-08-26 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.ggnext (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
Mahesh Divakaran [aut, cre, cph] |
| Maintainer: |
Mahesh Divakaran <itsmdivakaran at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/itsmdivakaran/ggnext/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://itsmdivakaran.github.io/ggnext/,
https://github.com/itsmdivakaran/ggnext |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Citation: |
ggnext citation info |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
ggnext results |
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