orbis-package: orbis: interactive and high-resolution layered graphics

In orbis: Interactive and High-Resolution Layered Graphics with Built-in World Maps

orbis: interactive and high-resolution layered graphics

Description

orbis builds plots from a layered grammar, compiles them to a resolution-independent scene description, and renders that scene through two back-ends:

Details

• a self-contained SVG writer with embedded JavaScript, giving interactive figures (tooltips, hover highlighting, zoom, pan, legend toggling) that need no internet connection and no JavaScript library, and

• R's own graphics devices, giving publication-quality raster or vector output at any resolution.

Geographic layers are first class: a simplified world polygon dataset ships with the package (world_map) and can be drawn in several projections with orb_map(), including an orthographic globe.

Getting started

Start a plot with orb(), add layers with orb_points(), orb_line(), orb_bars(), orb_area() or orb_map(), adjust appearance with orb_labs() and the ⁠orb_theme_*()⁠ functions, then display it, write it with orb_save(), or open the interactive version with orb_interactive().

Author(s)

Maintainer: Muhammad Farooqi [e-mail] (ORCID)

Authors:

• Muhammad Farooqi [e-mail] (ORCID)

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/mqfarooqi1/orbis

• https://mqfarooqi1.github.io/orbis/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/mqfarooqi1/orbis/issues

orbis documentation built on Aug. 5, 2026, 9:08 a.m.