Bumpchart

Authors

[Editor] Hu Zheng;

[Contributors]

Modified

2026-01-17

Note

Hiplot website

This page is the tutorial for source code version of the Hiplot Bumpchart plugin. You can also use the Hiplot website to achieve no code ploting. For more information please see the following link:

https://hiplot.cn/basic/bumpchart?lang=en

Bump chart can be used to display the change of grouped values.

Setup

  • System Requirements: Cross-platform (Linux/MacOS/Windows)

  • Programming language: R

  • Dependent packages: data.table; jsonlite; ggplot2; ggbump; dplyr

# Install packages
if (!requireNamespace("data.table", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("data.table")
}
if (!requireNamespace("jsonlite", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("jsonlite")
}
if (!requireNamespace("ggplot2", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("ggplot2")
}
if (!requireNamespace("ggbump", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ggbump/ggbump_0.1.0.tar.gz")
}
if (!requireNamespace("dplyr", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("dplyr")
}

# Load packages
library(data.table)
library(jsonlite)
library(ggplot2)
library(ggbump)
library(dplyr)
sessioninfo::session_info("attached")
─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 setting  value
 version  R version 4.5.2 (2025-10-31)
 os       Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
 system   x86_64, linux-gnu
 ui       X11
 language (EN)
 collate  C.UTF-8
 ctype    C.UTF-8
 tz       UTC
 date     2026-01-17
 pandoc   3.1.3 @ /usr/bin/ (via rmarkdown)
 quarto   1.8.27 @ /usr/local/bin/quarto

─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 package    * version   date (UTC) lib source
 data.table * 1.18.0    2025-12-24 [1] RSPM
 dplyr      * 1.1.4     2023-11-17 [1] RSPM
 ggbump     * 0.1.99999 2025-12-23 [1] Github (davidsjoberg/ggbump@fe6d5c7)
 ggplot2    * 4.0.1     2025-11-14 [1] RSPM
 jsonlite   * 2.0.0     2025-03-27 [1] RSPM

 [1] /home/runner/work/_temp/Library
 [2] /opt/R/4.5.2/lib/R/site-library
 [3] /opt/R/4.5.2/lib/R/library
 * ── Packages attached to the search path.

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Data Preparation

# Load data
data <- data.table::fread(jsonlite::read_json("https://hiplot.cn/ui/basic/bumpchart/data.json")$exampleData$textarea[[1]])
data <- as.data.frame(data)

# View data
head(data)
     x y group
1 2019 4     A
2 2020 2     A
3 2021 2     A
4 2019 3     B
5 2020 1     B
6 2021 4     B

Visualization

# Bumpchart
p <- ggplot(data, aes(x = x, y = y, color = group)) +
  geom_bump(size = 1.5) +
  geom_point(size = 5) +
  geom_text(data = data %>% filter(x == min(x)),
            aes(x = x - 0.1, label = group),
            size = 5, hjust = 1) +
  geom_text(data = data %>% filter(x == max(x)),
            aes(x = x + 0.1, label = group),
            size = 5, hjust = 0) +
  theme_void() +
  theme(legend.position = "none") +
  scale_color_manual(values = c("#0571B0","#92C5DE","#F4A582","#CA0020"))

p
FigureΒ 1: Bumpchart