C3.js vs ggplot2: What are the differences?
Developers describe C3.js as "A D3-based reusable chart library". c3 is a D3-based reusable chart library that enables deeper integration of charts into web applications. On the other hand, ggplot2 is detailed as "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.
C3.js and ggplot2 can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by C3.js are:
- Comfortable - C3 makes it easy to generate D3-based charts by wrapping the code required to construct the entire chart. We don't need to write D3 code any more.
- Customizable - C3 gives some classes to each element when generating, so you can define a custom style by the class and it's possible to extend the structure directly by D3.
- Controllable - C3 provides a variety of APIs and callbacks to access the state of the chart. By using them, you can update the chart even if after it's rendered.
On the other hand, ggplot2 provides the following key features:
- Axis titles
- Tickmarks
- Margins and points in ggplot2 look cooler
C3.js and ggplot2 are both open source tools. C3.js with 8.52K GitHub stars and 1.42K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than ggplot2 with 4.04K GitHub stars and 1.51K GitHub forks.