Top R Graph Examples: A Curated Collection




We're on a relentless quest to showcase the finest graphs created with R.

Our team scours the internet, follows leading creators on Twitter, and examines Tidy Tuesday submissions. As a result, our R Graph Gallery is a curated collection of the most exceptional R-based visualizations.

Exploring these remarkable data visualization projects will not only inspire you but also provide templates and code snippets that you won't find in beginner-level tutorials.

Dive into this section and elevate your R data visualization skills to new heights. 🔥

Choropleth map with quantiles

Choropleth Map with Quantiles

A choropleth map with a color scale based on quantiles and a highly customized legend that goes with it.

by Benjamin Nowak

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Chord diagram with small multiple in R

Chord diagram & small multiples

Chord diagrams effectively represent flows between entities, but too many connections can make them overwhelming. This example gains clarity and insight through small multiples!

by Ansgar Wolsing

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Ridgeline plot with inside plot and annotations made with R

Ridgeline plot with inside plot

A good example of how to customize a ridgeline plot where the legend is actually a smaller plot inside the main one, explaining the data in a more detailed way.

by Ansgar Wolsing

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Choropleth map with barplot and annotations made with R

Choropleth map with barplot

A choropleth map with a barplot and annotations. A good example of how to combine different types of plots on a map.

by Vinicius Oike Reginatto

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Clean vertical line chart made with R

Vertical line chart

A vertical line chart with a nice color palette and a clean layout, made with ggplot2 and patchwork.

by Aman Bhargava

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Sankey diagram with annotations made with R

Sankey diagram

A sankey diagram with beautiful colors and annotations

by Georgios Karamanis

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Choropleth map with barplot and annotations made with R

Bump chart with highlights

Find out how to use a bump chart for a time series and how to highlight specific lines with ggplot2.

by Matthias Schnetzer

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Clean line chart with inline labels made with R

Waffle chart as a time series

Waffle charts can be used to display time series data. This chart shows the evolution of the number of storms since 2010.

by Muhammad Azhar

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Clean line chart with inline labels made with R

Waffle chart as a distribution

Waffle charts can be used to display and compare distributions between groups.

by Benjamin Nowak

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triple maps

Triple map

Three maps put into a single plot

by Laura Navarro Soler

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Bump chart showing migration flows

Bump Chart

A clean bump chart showing the evolution of migration flows to Europe.

by Georgios Karamanis

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Chord diagram with small multiple in R

Vaccination Heatmap

Probably one of the most famous heatmaps ever, illustrating the impact of vaccination on measles cases. Heatmaps can be a powerful alternative for visualizing time series!

by Ben Moore

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triple maps

Double ridgeline plot

Combine two ridgeline plots to display several distributions

by Laura Navarro Soler

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triple maps

Small multiple area chart

Combine multiple area chart to display evolution of several categories

by Laura Navarro Soler

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triple maps

Density plot on a map

Measure population density with density plot

by Laura Navarro Soler

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Clean line chart with inline labels made with R

Bertin's valued points map

A map depicting the french population density in the style of Jacques Bertin. A good variation of the bubble map!

by Benjamin Nowak

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Clean line chart with inline labels made with R

Customized Dorling Cartogram

Learn how to create a dorling cartogram: a variation of the bubble map where bubbles do not overlap to increase readability.

by Benjamin Nowak

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Clean line chart with inline labels made with R

Line chart with labels

It is a common need to display labels at the end of the lines, since that's the place where labels are the more readable. CĂ©dric Scherer gives us a nice walk-through here on how to do it with ggplot2.

by CĂ©dric Scherer

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Line and Area charts made with R with the economist style

Line and Area charts by The Economist

Learn how to mimick the style of The Economist with libraries like ggplot2, patchwork, grid, ggtext and more.

by The Economist

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Timeseries and faceting chart made with R

Line chart with filled intersection

This example uses geo-faceting: the dataset is split and plotted using geographical regions. For each charts, 2 lines are displayed and the intersection between both is filled.

by Georgios Karamanis

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Stacked area chart with inline labels and beautiful color palette made with R

Stacked area chart with clean labels

A stacked area chart with a stunning color palette, some well positioned inline labels, some handy vertical annotations and some clean caption text.

by Gilbert Fontana

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Horizontal barlot with the Economist style made with R

Barplot with The Economist's style

The example is a reproduction of a barplot published in The Economist. The barplot itself is simple, but all the customization going with it to mimick the style are worth a read.

by The Economist

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Clean circular barplot made with R

Circular barplot with several features per group

Compare the features of several hiking locations in Washington with a highly customized circular barplot.

by Tobias Stalder

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Combination of a violin and a boxplot made with R

ggStatsPlot

Compare the distribution of 3 groups using a combination of boxplot and violin plot with ggStatsPlot.

Probably better than a barplot if you have several values per group!

by Tuo Wang

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Clean scatterplot using ggrepel made with R

ggRepel

ggRepel allows to add multiple labels with no overlap automatically. Here is a good looking scatterplot using it!

by Tuo Wang

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scatterplot with small multiple made with R

Scatterplot with regression fit and automatic text repel

A scatterplot with a regression fit to highlight the main trend, a clean color palette, a customized legend and some greatly selected labels with no overlap

by Claus O. Wilke

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Clean circular barplot made with R

Circular lollipop chart

A circular lollipop chart with customized layout, in circle legend and groups.

A work by CĂ©dric Scherer for the TidyTuesday challenge.

by CĂ©dric Scherer

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Line chart with small multiple made with R

Line chart with small multiple

A line chart with small multiple where all groups are repeated (but greyed-out) on each pannel.

by Gilbert Fontana

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Clean radar chart made with R

Radar chart with ggradar

A Spider chart made using the ggradar package and a lot of customization.

by Tuo Wang

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Treemap with annotations, labels and colors

Treemap with annotations and labels

A treemap with annotations, labels and colors. A good example of how to customize a treemap with specific labels.

by Yobanny Sámano

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Clean streamchart with inline labels made with R

ggStream

ggStream is a ggplot2 extension allowing to make stream graph with the tidyverse. Here is an example by CĂ©dric Scherer showcasing how to use this package.

by CĂ©dric Scherer

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Lollipop plot for timeseries made with R

Lollipop chart for timeseries

A very highly customized lollipop chart representing Mario Kart world records.

A work by CĂ©dric Scherer for the TidyTuesday challenge.

by CĂ©dric Scherer

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Clean lollipop plot made with R

Double cleveland chart

A very highly customized lollipop chart representing Mario Kart world records.

A work by CĂ©dric Scherer for the TidyTuesday challenge.

by CĂ©dric Scherer

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Clean dumbbell plot made with R

Extended dumbbell plot

An extended dumbbell plot with clean annotation for mean and standard deviation.

A work by Tobias Stalder for the TidyTuesday challenge.

by Tobias Stadler

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Dumbell plot with gap section made with R

Dumbbell plot with gap section

An extended dumbbell plot originally published by the Pew research center. Clean design with a gap section on the right hand side.

by Fred Duong

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Stacked Circular Barplot made with R

Stacked Circular Barplot

How to build a stacked circular barplot with multiple sub-groups with R and ggplot2

by Yan Holtz

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Clean heatmap to show timeseries made with R

Heatmap for timeseries

How to use a clean heatmap to show timeseries data, revealing insightful patterns.

by John MacKintosh

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Clean choropleth map made with R

Choropleth map

A clean choropleth map showing the density or restauration per region in the south of France

by Yan Holtz

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dumbell chart

Dumbell chart

A dumbell chart is a variation of the barplot. It is used to compare the value of 2 variables for several groups.

by CĂ©dric Scherer

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Clean connection map made with R

Connection map

Checking where surfers travel using twitter harvested Data.

by Yan Holtz

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Related chart types
Violin
Density
Histogram
Boxplot
Ridgeline