R wrapper for highcharts. highcharter bring all the highcharts capabilites so it is recommended know how highcharts API works to take a major advantage of this package. You can look some demos charts and explore chart types, syntax and all what highcharts can do.

Highlights

• Various chart type with the same style: scatters, bubble, line, time series, heatmaps, treemap, bar charts, networks.
• Chart various R object with one function. With hchart(x) you can chart: data.frames, numeric, histogram, character, density, factors, ts, mts, xts, stl, ohlc, acf, forecast, mforecast, ets, igraph, dist, dendrogram, phylo, survfit classes.
• Support Highstock charts. You can create a candlestick charts in 2 lines of code. Support xts objects from the quantmod package.
• Support Highmaps charts. It’s easy to create choropleths or add information in geojson format.
• Themes: you configurate your chart in multiples ways. There are implemented themes like economist, financial times, google, 538 among others.
• Plugins: motion, drag points, fontawesome, url-pattern, annotations.
• <3 and respect to Highcharts team.

Resources

• Official package website: http://jkunst.com/highcharter/.
• Highcharts API and highcharter by

• Replicating Highcharts Demos: https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/highcharter/vignettes/replicating-highcharts-demos.html
• CRAN site https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/highcharter/.
• Some Shiny demos here and code there.

Installation:

CRAN version:

install.packages("highcharter")

Development version:

devtools::install_github("jbkunst/highcharter")

source("https://install-github.me/jbkunst/highcharter")

Licence

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 (http://highcharts.com) is a Highsoft product which is not free for commercial and Governmental use.

Discount for highcharter users

Highsoft provide a discount to the highcharter users. It is a 50% discount on our Single Developer license. More details in http://announcements.highcharts.com/foss/.

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.