Circular Packing | the R Graph Gallery

One level → packcircles and ggplot2

If your dataset has no hierarchy (it is basically just a few entities with attributed numeric values), the packcircles package is the best way to build a circular packing chart in R. The packages basically computes the position of each bubble, allowing to build the chart with ggplot2.

Most basic

The most basic circular packing you can build..

Color customization

Change colors, map the palette to a variable, customize background and more.

Space between bubbles

Add space between bubbles by reducing bubble size according to a constant.

The ggiraph library allows to get an interactive circular packing with 1 level of hierarchy. This is really handy: hover the plot and you will get more information concerning each circle.

How to export to .png Chart code

Several levels → ggraph

If your dataset is a hierarchy, it is time to switch to other tools. For static versions, the ggraph package is the best option. It follows the grammar of graphic and makes it a breeze to customize the appearance following the same logic than ggplot2.

Most basic

The most basic circular packing you can build with R and ggraph

Add color

Learn how to map the bubble color to the hierarchy level

Add labels

Add labels to nodes to give more insight to the chart

Hide levels

Hide some levels of the hierarchy for a more stylish chart

Specific labels

Add labels to specific levels of the hierarchy

The circlepackeR library allows to get an interactive circular packing with several levels of hierarchy. Click on a group to zoom on it. The post describes how to use the package from different types of input dataset.

How to export to .png Chart code