The tourr package in R has several algorithms and displays for showing multivariate data as a sequence of low-dimensional projections. It can display as a movie but has no capacity for interaction, such as stop/go, change tour type, drop/add variables. The tourrGui package provides these sorts of controls, but the interface is programmed with the dated RGtk2 package. This work explores using custom messages to pass data from R to D3 for viewing, using the Shiny framework. This is an approach that can be generally used for creating all sorts of interactive graphics.
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Kipp, et al., "The R Journal: Connecting R with D3 for dynamic graphics, to explore multivariate data with tours", The R Journal, 2019
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2019-002,
author = {Kipp, Michael and Laa, Ursula and Cook, Dianne},
title = {The R Journal: Connecting R with D3 for dynamic graphics, to explore multivariate data with tours},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2019},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2019-002},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2019-002},
volume = {11},
issue = {1},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {245-249}
}