An Introduction to the DiagrammeR Package

If you have not installed DiagrammeR, then you can install from CRAN or for the development version use the devtools function install_github.

install.packages("DiagrammeR")
# development version; uncomment
#devtools::install_github(
  #"rich-iannone/DiagrammeR"
  #uncomment next line to build vignettes
  #,build_vignettes=T
)

Now let’s use library to give us access to our newfound diagramming abilities.

library(DiagrammeR)

DiagrammeR("
    graph LR;
      A-->B;
      A-->C;
      C-->E;
      B-->D;
      C-->D;
      D-->F;
      E-->F;
")

DiagrammeR("
    graph TB;
    A-->B;
    A-->C;
    C-->E;
    B-->D;
    C-->D;
    D-->F;
    E-->F;
")

DiagrammeR("
  graph LR;
    A(Rounded)-->B[Squared];
    B-->C{A Decision};
    C-->D[Square One];
    C-->E[Square Two];
    
    style A fill:#E5E25F;
    style B fill:#87AB51;
    style C fill:#3C8937;
    style D fill:#23772C;
    style E fill:#B6E6E6;
")

DiagrammeR("
  graph LR;
    A(Start)-->|Line Text|B(Keep Going)
    B-->|More Line Text|C(Stop);
    
    style A fill:#A2EB86, stroke:#04C4AB, stroke-width:2px;
    style B fill:#FFF289, stroke:#FCFCFF, stroke-width:2px, stroke-dasharray: 4, 4;
    style C fill:#FFA070, stroke:#FF5E5E, stroke-width:2px;
")

# Load in the 'mtcars' dataset
data(mtcars)

# Obtain column names
column_names <- colnames(mtcars)

# Use for in loop to generate summary strings for each mtcars column
for (i in 1:length(column_names)){
  if (i == 1) connections <- vector(mode = "character", length = 0L)
  
  connections <-
  c(connections,
    paste0(i, "(", column_names[i], ")---", i, "-stats(",
           "min: ", gsub(" ", "", (gsub(".*:(.*)", "\\1",summary(mtcars)[((i - 1) * 6) + 1]))), "<br/>",
           "1Q: ", gsub(" ", "", (gsub(".*:(.*)", "\\1",summary(mtcars)[((i - 1) * 6) + 2]))), "<br/>",
           "med: ", gsub(" ", "", (gsub(".*:(.*)", "\\1",summary(mtcars)[((i - 1) * 6) + 3]))), "<br/>",
           "mean: ", gsub(" ", "", (gsub(".*:(.*)", "\\1",summary(mtcars)[((i - 1) * 6) + 4]))), "<br/>",
           "3Q: ", gsub(" ", "", (gsub(".*:(.*)", "\\1",summary(mtcars)[((i - 1) * 6) + 5]))), "<br/>",
           "max: ", gsub(" ", "", (gsub(".*:(.*)", "\\1",summary(mtcars)[((i - 1) * 6) + 6]))),
           ")"))
}

DiagrammeR(
  paste0(
    "graph TD;", "\n",
    paste(connections, collapse = "\n"),"\n",
    "classDef column fill:#0001CC, stroke:#0D3FF3, stroke-width:1px;" ,"\n",
    "class ", paste0(1:length(column_names), collapse = ","), " column;"
  )
)

# Using this "How to Draw a Sequence Diagram" 
#  http://www.cs.uku.fi/research/publications/reports/A-2003-1/page91.pdf
# draw some sequence diagrams with DiagrammeR

library(DiagrammeR)
DiagrammeR("
sequenceDiagram;
  customer->>ticket seller: ask ticket;
  ticket seller->>database: seats;
  alt tickets available
    database->>ticket seller: ok;
    ticket seller->>customer: confirm;
    customer->>ticket seller: ok;
    ticket seller->>database: book a seat;
    ticket seller->>printer: print ticket;
  else sold out
    database->>ticket seller: none left;
    ticket seller->>customer:  sorry;
  end
")