vellum gallery

The parchment, the pen, and the annotation revealed on the page.

A showcase of what you can draw with the vellum graphics ecosystem in R: a Rust-backed rendering backend, a pipe-first grammar of graphics, and self-contained interactive HTML widgets.

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The ecosystem

vellum

the parchment

A grid-like low-level graphics system whose scene graph, layout engine, and PNG/SVG/PDF rendering all run in a Rust backend.

vellumplot

the pen

A declarative, pipe-first grammar of graphics that compiles an inspectable plot spec into a vellum scene.

vellumwidget

the annotation

Turns any vellum scene into a self-contained interactive HTML widget you can hover, select, brush, and zoom, all in the browser with no server.

vellumverse

the meta-package

Installs and loads the whole ecosystem together, in the spirit of the tidyverse.

A taste

A data frame, a few marks, and a trained scale make a whole plot.

p <- vplot(mtcars, width = 7, height = 4.2) |>
  mark_point(x = wt, y = mpg, color = hp, size = 2.4) |>
  mark_smooth(x = wt, y = mpg, method = "lm", se = TRUE) |>
  scale_color_continuous() |>
  labs(
    title = "Weight vs. fuel economy",
    x = "weight (1000 lbs)", y = "miles per gallon", color = "hp"
  ) |>
  theme_minimal()

See the rest in the gallery.