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Last year I was working on a project concerning the creation of R-graphics. I remember that, during my research then, I came across something to visualize interactive R-graphics on a webpage. Unfortunately, I don't remember the name.

Does anyone know a good package/... to achieve this? I would like to get data from a database, use this data to generate a plot using R, and then visualize the plot on a webpage.

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There are two ways of doing this. You could either use an direct method or an indirect method. For the indirect method you generate the javascript in your R script and pas it on to PHP (which is a lot of work but gives really nice graphs):

direct method

• Knitr - compatible with R-studio
• GridSVG
• Shiny - compatible with R-studio

Indirect

• Highcharts
• D3.js
• Rickshaw

Personally I'm most excited about epivizr which makes use of D3.js