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Highcharter
First steps on highcharter package: Start here if this is your first time with highcharter. You’ll learn the main functions to get a chart from a data frame and some basic examples.
Showcase: In this vignette we’ll review some examples to show what highcharts and highcharter can do in terms of customization and design.
hchart Function: This a generic function, this means you can chart various R like numeric, histograms, character, factor, ts on the fly. The resulting chart is a highchart object so you can keep modifying with the implemented API.
Highcharts API: Highcharts have a rich API which allows you to have control of the entire chart, from title, subtitle to axis ticks, labels, annotations. We’ll review the main functions with simple examples.
Javascript API Basics: It’s very constructive to understand the relationship between the functions available in highcharter and the underlying highchartsJS API in more detail.

Charts with highcharts: Highcharts is a SVG-based, multi-platform charting library. The highcharter package bring all highchartsJS capabilities to your R console. So you can chart from simple charts like column, scatter to more complex charts like streamgraph, packedbubble, vector field among others.
Maps with highmaps: libraries from highchartsJS to chart maps, choroplets and geojson. The highcharter package include highmaps
Stocks with highstocks: libraries from highchartsJS to create stock or general timeline charts. Features sophisticated navigation for high-volume data, user annotations and range selectors. The highcharter package include highstocks
Themes: Highcharts is very flexible for create or themes. In Highcarter there are some predefined themes and some functions to create your own or merge themes.
Modules & plugins: There are many plugins for highcharts created by both the Highsoft team and the community. The plugins can from adding features to series or legends, as well as in data export formats or adjusting regressions or smoothing.

Commons HOW TOs: A list of examples of commons _how to_s.
Shiny Examples: This article show how simple is integrate highcharter widgets into your shiny apps. Here you will find some specific examples like the use of proxy funcions and other apps to give you some inspiration.
Drilldown: Drilldown is the concept of inspecting increasingly high resolution data through clicking on chart items like columns, points or pie slices. Let’s see some How tos use this feature.
Fontawesome integration: Take a look on how you can add incons to the text or even use the icons as marker points.
Motion plugin