Multivariate Data Visualization using Glyphs

Provides 'ggplot2' geoms for visualizing multivariate data using glyphs. The package implements several established glyph designs described in the information visualization literature, including the review by Borgo et al. (2013) .

ggmultiglyph: Multivariate Data Visualization using Glyphs

Version : 0.1.0; Copyright (C) 2021-2026: ICAR-NBPGR; License: GPL-2|GPL-3

Aravind, J.

Division of Germplasm Conservation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.

Description

Provides ‘ggplot2’ geoms for visualizing multivariate data using glyphs. The package implements several established glyph designs described in the information visualization literature, including the review by Borgo et al. (2013) doi:10.2312/conf/EG2013/stars/039-063.

Installation

The development version can be installed from github as follows:

# Install development version from Github
devtools::install_github("aravind-j/ggmultiglyph")

What’s new

To know whats new in this version type:

news(package='ggmultiglyph')

Links

Github page

Documentation website

Citing ggmultiglyph

To cite the methods in the package use:

citation("ggmultiglyph")

To cite the R package 'ggmultiglyph' in publications use:

  Aravind, J. (2026).  ggmultiglyph: Multivariate Data Visualization using Glyphs. R package version 0.1.0,
  https://aravind-j.github.io/ggmultiglyph/.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {ggmultiglyph: Multivariate Data Visualization using Glyphs},
    author = {J. Aravind},
    note = {R package version 0.1.0 https://aravind-j.github.io/ggmultiglyph/},
    year = {2026},
  }

This free and open-source software implements academic research by the authors and co-workers. If you use it, please support the
project by citing the package.