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This will be the last post in our iterations in visualizing trees. In the next post, we’ll move on to how we can use the very popular React in R.

Our first post yielded a sankeytree concoction.

Then our second post made a more compact parttree.

This post is courtesy of Displayr who have generously offered to sponsor a series of independently authored posts about interactive visualization with R and JavaScript. Thank you so much Displayr for this opportunity.

Before I start on the second post on the series, I wanted to make sure all my R readers knew that the charts in this post are created in R using htmltools. Also, each chart should have a link to reproducible code.

In our first attempt at improving hierarchical visualization, we combined d3.tree() with d3-sankey. Our sankeytree concoction allows us to convey size or flow from one…

This post is courtesy of Displayr who have generously offered to sponsor a series of independently authored posts about interactive visualization with R and JavaScript. Thank you so much Displayr for this opportunity.

d3 provides a helpful suite of layouts (cluster, tree, treemap, pack, and partition) for visualizing tree networks or hierarchies. In addition, we have the d3-sankey plugin for a Sankey diagram as another mechanism for presenting tree data. Approaching the layout decision as a mutually exclusive proposition means that we lose many of the benefits from alternative layouts. However, incorporating our favorite features from more than one layout…