d3rain

According to the authorities at Urban Dictionary, ‘drip’ is synonymous with ‘immense swag.’ This package brings some D3 drip to R.

Installation

You can install d3rain from GitHub via:

remotes::install_github("daranzolin/d3rain")

Example

‘Rain’ visualizations are useful aids to observe the relationship between a ranked, numeric variable (e.g. percentile, rank, etc.) and any factored, categorical variable.

library(d3rain)
library(tidyverse)

armed_levels <- c('No', 'Knife', 'Non-lethal firearm', 'Firearm')
pk <- fivethirtyeight::police_killings %>% 
  filter(armed %in% armed_levels,
         !is.na(age)) %>% 
  mutate(armed = factor(armed, levels = armed_levels)) 

pk %>% 
  d3rain(age, armed, toolTip = raceethnicity, title = "2015 Police Killings by Age, Armed Status") %>% 
  drip_behavior(dripSequence = 'iterate',
                ease = 'bounce',
                jitterWidth = 20,
                dripSpeed = 1000) %>% 
  drip_style(dripFill = 'firebrick',
             fontFamily = 'times')

drip_behavior adjusts the drip sequence, easing animation, jitter width, and drip speed. drip_style controls the drip fill, font size, font family, and background color.

Future Work

• Additional drip behaviors (e.g. by group)
• Conditional fill colors
• More axis control