| Title | Lightweight Data Visualization via the Grammar of Graphics |
| Version | 0.0.32 |
| Description | A lightweight R interface to the AntV G2 JavaScript visualization library with a ggplot2-style API. Supports rendering in litedown, R Markdown, Quarto, Jupyter notebooks (via the R kernel), Shiny, and standalone HTML previews. |
| Depends | R (>= 4.1.0) |
| Imports | xfun (>= 0.57) |
| Suggests | htmltools, litedown, knitr, repr, shiny, testit |
| License | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL | https://github.com/yihui/gglite |
| BugReports | https://github.com/yihui/gglite/issues |
| VignetteBuilder | litedown |
| Author | Yihui Xie  [aut, cre] |
Experimental — this package is still under active development. The API may change and it has been hurting my brain badly. Feedback welcome!
An R package for interactive data visualization using the AntV G2 JavaScript library, with a Grammar of Graphics-style API inspired by ggplot2. The goal is to have Grammar of Graphics and interactivity and keep everything lightweight ({gglite} has only one R package dependency).
1 Install
Not on CRAN yet, but r-universe.dev is an awesome service in many ways:
install.packages('gglite', repos = 'https://yihui.r-universe.dev')
You can also try the package without installing in the package playground: https://pkg.yihui.org/gglite/playground/ (it also works on your mobile devices, thanks to webR). See the package site (https://pkg.yihui.org/gglite/) for examples and documentation.
R Markdown, litedown, Quarto, Jupyter, Shiny, and standalone HTML previews (in the browser) are all supported.
Appendix
To cite the package gglite in publications, please use:
Xie Y (2026). gglite: Lightweight Data Visualization via the Grammar of Graphics. R package version 0.0.32, https://github.com/yihui/gglite.
@Manual{,
title = {gglite: Lightweight Data Visualization via the Grammar of Graphics},
author = {Yihui Xie},
year = {2026},
note = {R package version 0.0.32},
url = {https://github.com/yihui/gglite},
}