Introducing rscatter

An R package that creates an htmlwidget wrapping the regl-scatterplot JavaScript library. Create pan-and-zoomable scatterplots—with the rscatter function—that scale to millions of points and display in the RStudio viewer, R Markdown, Quarto, and Shiny. View additional documentation and function references at https://davidpross.github.io/rscatter/.

# Install remotes package if necessary
if (!require("remotes")) {
  install.packages("remotes")
}

remotes::install_github("davidpross/rscatter", upgrade = FALSE)
library(rscatter)

rscatter(rnorm(1e4), rnorm(1e4))

<img width="534" alt="plot" src="https://github.com/davidpross/rscatter/assets/48140684/1fcfade1-3ebf-4576-aaa1-c770a878b15f">

Shiny example

You can integrate rscatter in Shiny apps; a sample Fermat spiral app lives at inst/shiny-examples/spiral. Run it from R with:

shiny::runApp(system.file("shiny-examples/spiral", package = "rscatter"))

Related Tools

• Jupyter Scatter is a widget for use with interactive computational notebooks in the Python world, written by the creator of regl-scatterplot.
• ScatterD3 is another HTML widget for making scatterplots.