We're on a relentless quest to showcase the finest graphs created with R.
Our team scours the internet, follows leading creators on Twitter, and examines Tidy Tuesday submissions. As a result, our R Graph Gallery is a curated collection of the most exceptional R-based visualizations.
Exploring these remarkable data visualization projects will not only inspire you but also provide templates and code snippets that you won't find in beginner-level tutorials.
Dive into this section and elevate your R data visualization skills to new heights. 🔥
Ridgeline plot with inside plot
A good example of how to customize a ridgeline plot where the legend is actually a smaller plot inside the main one, explaining the data in a more detailed way.
by Ansgar Wolsing
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Waffle chart as a time series
Waffle charts can be used to display time series data. This chart shows the evolution of the number of storms since 2010.
by Muhammad Azhar
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Waffle chart as a distribution
Waffle charts can be used to display and compare distributions between groups.
by Benjamin Nowak
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Bertin's valued points map
A map depicting the french population density in the style of Jacques Bertin. A good variation of the bubble map!
by Benjamin Nowak
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Customized Dorling Cartogram
Learn how to create a dorling cartogram: a variation of the bubble map where bubbles do not overlap to increase readability.
by Benjamin Nowak
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Line chart with labels
It is a common need to display labels at the end of the lines, since that's the place where labels are the more readable. Cédric Scherer gives us a nice walk-through here on how to do it with ggplot2.
by Cédric Scherer
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Line and Area charts by The Economist
Learn how to mimick the style of The Economist with libraries like ggplot2, patchwork, grid, ggtext and more.
by The Economist
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Line chart with filled intersection
This example uses geo-faceting: the dataset is split and plotted using geographical regions. For each charts, 2 lines are displayed and the intersection between both is filled.
by Georgios Karamanis
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Stacked area chart with clean labels
A stacked area chart with a stunning color palette, some well positioned inline labels, some handy vertical annotations and some clean caption text.
by Gilbert Fontana
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Barplot with The Economist's style
The example is a reproduction of a barplot published in The Economist. The barplot itself is simple, but all the customization going with it to mimick the style are worth a read.
by The Economist
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Circular barplot with several features per group
Compare the features of several hiking locations in Washington with a highly customized circular barplot.
by Tobias Stalder
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ggStatsPlot
Compare the distribution of 3 groups using a combination of boxplot and violin plot with ggStatsPlot.
Probably better than a barplot if you have several values per group!
by Tuo Wang
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ggRepel
ggRepel allows to add multiple labels with no overlap automatically. Here is a good looking scatterplot using it!
by Tuo Wang
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Scatterplot with regression fit and automatic text repel
A scatterplot with a regression fit to highlight the main trend, a clean color palette, a customized legend and some greatly selected labels with no overlap
by Claus O. Wilke
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Circular lollipop chart
A circular lollipop chart with customized layout, in circle legend and groups.
A work by Cédric Scherer for the TidyTuesday challenge.
by Cédric Scherer
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Line chart with small multiple
A line chart with small multiple where all groups are repeated (but greyed-out) on each pannel.
by Gilbert Fontana
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Radar chart with ggradar
A Spider chart made using the ggradar package and a lot of customization.
by Tuo Wang
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Treemap with annotations and labels
A treemap with annotations, labels and colors. A good example of how to customize a treemap with specific labels.
by Yobanny Sámano
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ggStream
ggStream is a ggplot2 extension allowing to make stream graph with the tidyverse. Here is an example by Cédric Scherer showcasing how to use this package.
by Cédric Scherer
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Lollipop chart for timeseries
A very highly customized lollipop chart representing Mario Kart world records.
A work by Cédric Scherer for the TidyTuesday challenge.
by Cédric Scherer
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Double cleveland chart
A very highly customized lollipop chart representing Mario Kart world records.
A work by Cédric Scherer for the TidyTuesday challenge.
by Cédric Scherer
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Extended dumbbell plot
An extended dumbbell plot with clean annotation for mean and standard deviation.
A work by Tobias Stalder for the TidyTuesday challenge.
by Tobias Stadler
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Dumbbell plot with gap section
An extended dumbbell plot originally published by the Pew research center. Clean design with a gap section on the right hand side.
by Fred Duong
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Stacked Circular Barplot
How to build a stacked circular barplot with multiple sub-groups with R and ggplot2
by Yan Holtz
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Heatmap for timeseries
How to use a clean heatmap to show timeseries data, revealing insightful patterns.
by John MacKintosh
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Choropleth map
A clean choropleth map showing the density or restauration per region in the south of France
by Yan Holtz
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Dumbell chart
A dumbell chart is a variation of the barplot. It is used to compare the value of 2 variables for several groups.
by Cédric Scherer
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Connection map
Checking where surfers travel using twitter harvested Data.
by Yan Holtz
Related chart types
Violin
Density
Histogram
Boxplot
Ridgeline
