orbis: Interactive and High-Resolution Layered Graphics with Built-in
World Maps
A layered grammar of graphics that compiles plots to a
resolution-independent scene description and renders it through two
back-ends: a self-contained SVG writer with embedded 'JavaScript' for
interactive figures (tooltips, hover highlighting, zoom, pan and legend
toggling) and R's own graphics devices for publication-quality output at
any resolution. Geographic layers are first class: a simplified world
polygon dataset ships with the package and can be drawn with several map
projections, including Robinson, Equal Earth and an orthographic globe.
The layered grammar follows Wickham (2010) <doi:10.1198/jcgs.2009.07098>;
projections follow Snyder (1987) <doi:10.3133/pp1395> and, for Equal Earth,
Savric, Patterson and Jenny (2019) <doi:10.1080/13658816.2018.1504949>;
line simplification uses Douglas and Peucker (1973)
<doi:10.3138/FM57-6770-U75U-7727>; the default colour scales follow the
guidance on perceptually uniform palettes of Crameri, Shephard and Heron
(2020) <doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19160-7>.
| Version: |
0.1.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: |
grDevices, grid, stats, utils, htmltools |
| Suggests: |
testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, spelling |
| Published: |
2026-08-05 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.orbis (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
Muhammad Farooqi 
[aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: |
Muhammad Farooqi <mqfarooqi at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/mqfarooqi1/orbis/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/mqfarooqi1/orbis,
https://mqfarooqi1.github.io/orbis/ |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Language: |
en-GB |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
orbis results |
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These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
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