Interactive web graphics with R and googleVis

Tutorial: Interactive web graphics with R and googleVis

Markus Gesmann, googleVis Project and Diego de Castillo, googleVis Project

Overview

The googleVis package [1,2] provides an interface between R [3] and the Google Chart Tools [4] to create interactive charts which can be embedded into web pages. The best known of these charts is probably the Motion Chart, popularised by Hans Rosling in his TED talks [5]. This tutorial will give an overview of the package and explain in detail how the functions can be applied to generate interactive charts for web pages and how it can be used as part of a reproducible research workflow, e.g. in combination with knitr [6] and pandoc [7].

Goals

Outline

Introduction
Motivation
Google Chart Tools
googleVis package

Philosophy and concept
Creating interactive charts
Getting googleVis charts into web sites
Creating interactive web apps with R and googleVis
Using googleVis with RStudio
Using googleVis with knitr
Creating interactive presentations with googleVis
Session in groups with laptops to work through examples

Prerequisites

Participants should have a knowledge of standard R functions and some experience of HTML. Participants are welcome to bring their own laptops and datasets to explore graphical analyses for themselves, especially in the discussion sessions.

Workshop Materials