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beeswarm

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An R package implementing bee swarm plots

Installation

You can install the latest release on CRAN like this:

install.packages("beeswarm")

Or you can install the latest development version from GitHub like this:

## install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("aroneklund/beeswarm")

Related works

  • ggbeeswarm bee swarm and related plots in the ggplot2 framework
  • pybeeswarm bee swarm plots in Python

It's also known as a dot plot

Leland Wilkinson (1999). Dot plots. The American Statistician. 53(3):276-281. PDF

It seems to be the same basic point layout algorithm, except that Wilkinson suggests an additional smoothing step that the beeswarm package does not do.