Highcharter Cheat Sheet

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Name: Dhanush M Vajravelu
Regno: 18BCE2071

Intro

R package is a wrapper for the ‘Highcharts’ library including shortcut functions to plot R objects.

Installation & Use

Installation
install.packages("highcharter")	To install Highcharter
Load
library(highcharter)	Load Highcharter library at the beginning of the code
Useful functions
highchart()	This function creates a Highchart chart using htmlwidgets
hchart()	This function to draw different charts on the fly
hc_add_series()	Adds data to existing objects (useful for discrete graphs like scatter plot)
hc_chart()	Chart options for highcharter objects
hc_labels()	Labels options for highcharter objects
hc_legend()	Legend options for highcharter objects
hcmap()	Shortcut to access the Highcharter map library from https://code.highcharts.com/mapdata/*
hc_add_theme()	To add Predefined themes
export_hc()	Function to export js file the configuration options

Using Hchart()

Syntax
hchart(object, ...)

Bar Plot

Syntax
hchart(type = "bar")

Code
pokemon%>%
count(type_1)%>%
arrange(n)%>%
hchart(type = "bar", hcaes(x = type_1, y = n))

Column Plot

Syntax
hchart(type = "column")

Code
pokemon%>%
count(type_1)%>%
arrange(n)%>%
hchart(type = "column", hcaes(x = type_1, y = n))

Treemap

Syntax
hchart(type = "treemap")

Code
pokemon%>%
count(type_1)%>%
arrange(n)%>%
hchart(type = "treemap", hcaes(x = type_1, value = n, color = n))

Using hc_chart()

Syntax
hc_chart(hc, ...)

Area Chart

Syntax
hc_chart(type = "area") %>%

Using hc_add_series()

Syntax
hc_add_series(hc, data = NULL, ...)

Scatter Plot

Syntax
hc_add_series(data, "type = scatter")

Code
highchart()%>%
hc_add_series(pokemon, "type = scatter", hcaes(x = height, y = weight))

Using hc_add_theme()

Syntax
hc_add_theme(hc, hc_thm)

Theming using hc_theme_chalk

Code
highchart()%>%
count(type_1)%>%
arrange(n)%>%
hc_add_series(pokemon, "type = scatter", hcaes(x = height, y = weight))
hc_add_theme(hc_theme_chalk())

Other themes with Highcharter
hc_theme_db
hc_theme_economist
hc_theme_flat
hc_theme_ft
hc_theme_ggplot2
hc_theme_handdrawn
hc_theme_chalk
hc_theme_flatdark
hc_theme_superheroes
hc_theme_google

Using hmaps()

Usage

hcmap(map, download_map_data, ...)

Map - String indicating what map to chart, a list from https://code.highcharts.com/mapdata/.

download_map_data - A logical value whether to download (add as a dependency) the map.

Map Download

Code
hcmap("https://code.highcharts.com/mapdata/countries/in/in-all.js")%>%
hc_title(text = "India")

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