As part our series on new features in the RStudio v1.2 Preview Release, we’re pleased to announce the r2d3 package, a suite of tools for using custom D3 visualizations with R. RStudio v1.2 includes several features to help optimize your development experience with r2d3. We’ll describe these features below, but first a bit more about the package. Features of r2d3 include: Translating R objects into D3 friendly data structures Read more →

We’re pleased to announce d3heatmap, our new package for generating interactive heat maps using d3.js and htmlwidgets. Tal Galili, author of dendextend, collaborated with us on this package. d3heatmap is designed to have a familiar feature set and API for anyone who has used heatmap or heatmap.2 to create static heatmaps. You can specify dendrogram, clustering, and scaling options in the same way. d3heatmap includes the following features: Shows the row/column/value under the mouse cursor Read more →