Information Dashboards in R with ggplot2

r ggplot2 dashboard r-grid
user246211 picture user246211 · Feb 4, 2010 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

I'm looking to create a static dashboard viewable in a web browser. And I'd like to create something like what Stephen Few does in his book Information Dashboard Design. (see example at bottom)

  1. Ggplot2: Shouldn't be any issue producing the graphs below, right?
  2. Dashboard Layout: Is grid suitable? Or should I lay things out in html/css?

If grid can do this easily enough, do you know of any good resources for learning how to us it? I've read the manual but I'm not finding it too helpful. I've seen the LearnR blog's ggplot2 sales dashboard (it uses grid) and I'm having trouble understanding the grid and layout part of things.

dasboard sample http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1029/fewciodashboard800.png

Answer

hadley picture hadley · Feb 4, 2010

See http://learnr.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/ggplot2-sales-dashboard/ for an example with code.

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