Data-Driven Flowcharts in R Using DiagrammeR

3 comments

• mbostock 1891 days ago
  Shameless plug, but here’s a live Graphviz editor in Observable:

  https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/graph-o-matic

  And here’s a demo of dot tagged template literals:

  https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/graphviz

  Having Graphviz at your fingertips is fantastic. I use it all the time for small networks where I don’t want to think too much about the layout and aesthetics. Here’s an interactive example:

  https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/how-observable-runs
• pplonski86 1891 days ago
  Do you know python alternative for DiagrammeR? I've switched from R to python 5 years ago and dont want to come back
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  • spinningslate 1891 days ago
    There's the graphviz lib [0] and also, somewhat confusingly, pygraphviz [1].

    They are a bit different though, nicely summarised here [2].

    [0]:https://pypi.org/project/graphviz/

    [1]: https://github.com/pygraphviz/pygraphviz

    [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37353199/graphviz-vs-pyg...
• clircle 1890 days ago
  Looks nice. I was thinking I may have to learn TikZ to make professional looking diagrams, but this may do the trick.