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https://github.com/jbkunst/highcharter

R wrapper for highcharts
https://github.com/jbkunst/highcharter

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# HIGHCHARTER



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Highcharter is a **[R](https://cran.r-project.org/)** wrapper for 

**[Highcharts](https://www.highcharts.com/)**  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 

chart `data.frames`, `numeric` or `character` vectors, `ts`,

 `xts`, `forecast`, `survfit`  objects.

* Support Highstock You can create a candlestick charts in 2 lines 

of code. Support `xts` class from the {quantmod} package.

* Support Highmaps Create choropleth charts or add 

information in `geojson` format.

* 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.



## Installation



CRAN version:



```r

install.packages("highcharter")

```



Development version:



```r

remotes::install_github("jbkunst/highcharter")

```



## How to start



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.



## 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 (https://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 https://newsletter.highcharts.com/foss/.