ggplot2 is the de-facto standard tool for creating visualizations in R. Even experienced R programmers sometimes struggle to remember the exact commands to build up plots. So a graphical interface with drag-and-drop functionality comes in very handy! Enter esquisse by Victor Perrier and Fanny Meyer. You can obtain the R code needed to re-create your plot, or directly export the plot to PNG or Powerpoint format.

esquisse is a special type of Shiny app: a Shiny Gadget. One benefit of this approach is that you can conveniently start it from the Addins menu in RStudio.

The data I used for my examples come from this website:
https://chart2000.com/

You can also find the data on my github profile:
https://github.com/fjodor/dataviz_ideas
chart2000-songyear-0-3-0062.csv

See more about Shiny Gadgets here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/articles/gadgets.html

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Playlist: Music chart history
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