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beeswarm

An R package implementing bee swarm plots

You can see some examples here: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/~eklund/beeswarm/

Installation

You can install the latest release on CRAN like this:

install.packages("beeswarm")

Or you can install the latest development version from GitHub like this:

## install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("aroneklund/beeswarm")

Related works

• ggbeeswarm bee swarm and related plots in the ggplot2 framework
• pybeeswarm bee swarm plots in Python

It’s also known as a dot plot

Leland Wilkinson (1999). Dot plots. The American Statistician. 53(3):276-281. PDF

It seems to be the same basic point layout algorithm, except that Wilkinson suggests an additional smoothing step that the beeswarm package does not do.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.