How to create a line chart using plotly in R?
This recipe helps you create a line chart using plotly in R
Recipe Objective
How to create a line chart using plotly in R? The line chart can be used for plotting continuous interval data points as well as for plotting categorical data points in a graph. Hence, the line chart is mainly used for showing trends over a period of time. The line chart connects all the data points on the graph by drawing line segments through those points. This recipe demonstrates an example on a line chart in R.
Step 1 - Install the necessary package and library
install.packages("plotly")
library(plotly)
Step 2 - Define a Vector
data = data.frame(x = c(5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40),
y = c(2,5,6,8,1,9,5,3))
Step 3 - Plot a line chart
Syntax for line chart using plotly - plot_ly(x, type, mode) where, x - input data type - scatter mode - lines
figure_1 <- plot_ly(data, x = ~x, y = ~y, type = 'scatter', mode = 'lines')
figure_1
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