Chart.js vs ggplot2: What are the differences?
What is Chart.js? Simple, clean and engaging charts for designers and developers. Visualize your data in 6 different ways. Each of them animated, with a load of customisation options and interactivity extensions.
What is ggplot2? A data visualization package for the statistical programming language R. It is a general scheme for data visualization which breaks up graphs into semantic components such as scales and layers.
Chart.js and ggplot2 can be categorized as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by Chart.js are:
- animated
- HTML5 based
- Responsive
On the other hand, ggplot2 provides the following key features:
- Axis titles
- Tickmarks
- Margins and points in ggplot2 look cooler
Chart.js and ggplot2 are both open source tools. It seems that Chart.js with 45.6K GitHub stars and 9.96K forks on GitHub has more adoption than ggplot2 with 4.04K GitHub stars and 1.51K GitHub forks.