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plotomics

Seventeen GPU- and canvas-accelerated visualization widgets for bioinformatics, built on a shared JavaScript core and exposed to R through htmlwidgets. Every widget renders in the RStudio Viewer, R Markdown, Quarto and Shiny, and each ships a matching *Output() / render*() pair for Shiny apps.

The same core drives the Python and JavaScript packages, so a figure looks and behaves identically in all three languages.

Installation 

install.packages("plotomics", repos = "https://samuelbharti.r-universe.dev")

Or from GitHub:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("samuelbharti/plotomics")

Quick start 

library(plotomics)

# Differential expression
volcano(data.frame(
  x    = res$log2FoldChange,
  y    = -log10(res$padj),
  gene = rownames(res)
))

# A single-cell embedding: a factor pins the legend order and keeps
# unused levels, the way drop = FALSE does in ggplot2
embedding(data.frame(
  x     = umap[, 1],
  y     = umap[, 2],
  color = factor(cell_type)
))

# Kaplan-Meier, straight from a survfit object
km(survival::survfit(survival::Surv(time, status) ~ sex, data = lung))

Components

Area Functions
Expression and abundance volcano(), bioheatmap(), clustermap(), dotplot(), violin()
Single-cell and spatial embedding(), spatial()
Cohort and variant oncoplot(), lollipop(), km(), profile()
Sets, hierarchies, networks upset(), treemap(), network()
Genome and chromatin hic(), igv(), gosling()

Helpers: oncoplot_memo_sort() for the conventional oncoplot column order, upset_intersections() for exclusive set intersections, and violin_density() for densities computed in R.

Two names differ from the obvious choice to avoid masking base and recommended functions: bioheatmap() (aliased as heatmap_plotomics()) rather than heatmap().

Shiny

Every widget has a Shiny pair. The network and embedding widgets also report selections back to the server:

ui <- fluidPage(networkOutput("net"))

server <- function(input, output) {
  output$net <- renderNetwork(network(nodes, edges))
  # clicking a node sets input$net_selected
  observeEvent(input$net_selected, print(input$net_selected))
}

Built for large data

Numeric columns reach the browser as a binary buffer rather than JSON, which is what keeps several hundred thousand points interactive rather than merely drawable.

Documentation

License

MIT. See LICENSE.