plotcli is an R package that brings the power of command-line plotting to your R environment. With a simple and intuitive R6 class interface, plotcli allows you to create and customize a variety of plot types, such as scatter, line, bar, and box plots, directly in your console.
Features
- Convert
ggplot2objects to colored terminal plots withggplotcli - Easy-to-use R6 class interface
- Supports scatter, line, bar, and box plots
- Customizable plot elements: title, axis labels, ticks, and legend
- Braille character support for high-resolution plots
- Convenience wrappers for most frequently used functions
plotcli is heavily inspired by the excellent UnicodePlots.jl library.
> ggplotcli(ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Width, y = Sepal.Length, color = Species)) + geom_boxplot())
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
4.4 │ ─────── │
│ │ │
│ │ │
│ │ │
│ │ ─────── │
3.8 │ ┌───────┐ │ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ │───────│ ─────── │ │
│ │ │ │ │ │ setosa
Sepal.Length 3.2 │ └───────┘ │ ┌───────┐ │ versicolor
│ │ │ │ │ │ virginica
│ │ ┌───────┐ │───────│ │
│ ─────── │───────│ └───────┘ │
│ │ │ │ │
2.6 │ │ │ │ │
│ └───────┘ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ * │ ─────── │
│ │ │
2.0 │ ─────── │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
setosa versicolor virginica
Sepal.Width You can install the plotcli package from GitHub using the devtools package:
# Install devtools if you haven't already
if (!requireNamespace("devtools", quietly = TRUE)) {
install.packages("devtools")
}
# Install plotcli from GitHub
devtools::install_github("cheuerde/plotcli")The easiest way to use the package if you are already familiar with ggplot2
is to configure your ggplot2 object as usual and then simply convert to a plotcli
terminal plot with ggplotcli:
# Load the plotcli package
library(plotcli)
data(mtcars)
mtcars$cf = as.character(mtcars$cyl)
p = ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg, y = wt, color = cf)) + geom_point()
# print to terminal
ggplotcli(p, braille = FALSE)Check the vignettes for all possible ways of using the package.
- txtplot: The OG in R
- r-plot: Collection of excellent terminal plotting functions
- UnicodePlots.jl: The gold standard for terminal graphics
- plotext: Powerful terminal graphics in python
plotcli is released under the MIT License.