Announcing ggtips

UPDATE: the original repository is no longer available. The project is now located at https://github.com/cosi1/ggtips.

Courtesy of our employer, my colleagues (Jakub Jankiewicz and Michał Jakubczak) and I have just open-sourced an in-house R package we wrote to replace the tooltip functionality of Plotly (which we had found rather immature and hard to customize).

ggtips combines R’s Grid, JS-driven manipulation of SVG objects, and reactive renderers from Shiny to produce interactive SVG plots embedded in Shiny’s uiOutput containers. Additionally, it provides a number of low-level (unexported) functions for manipulating grobs (graphics objects).

A simple demo app shows basic features of ggtips; a Dockerized version is also available (see README).

Project homepage: https://github.com/cosi1/ggtips