create an "open highcharter" for Shiny

[pachadotdev]

I'm thinking about building an "open highcharter", something that allows interactive D3 visualization from Shiny in a very easy way. Think of this as Ikea furniture, something that is accesible and fits almost anywhere.

R already features excellent visualization libraries such as D3 (via the r2d3 package) or plotly, however though those enable the creation of great looking visualisations they have very steep learning curves and even sometimes require some understanding of JavaScript.

After LatinR I realised that, for this to be complete, it has to include internationalization (i.e. show 1.000 instead of 1,000 in spanish) and provide easy i18n activation for example with functions like the_chart(..., lang = "es").

The idea is to take the good ideas from highcharts, but also other good ideas from echarts, vegaLite and D3plus to create an R package that is easy to use and provides a set of well polished D3 templates for interactive visualization.

As an R user, I'm thinking about something designed for the %>% operator and the ultimate aim of the project is to produce a package that:

• Offers perfect integration with Shiny
• Enables downloading the charts in different image formats (png, jpeg, svg)
• Enables downloading the data in different formats (json, csv, xlsx)
• Can produce high quality results with a minimal number of lines of code
• Has internalization with options to render visualizations in english, spanish and french