ggWebGL: Browser-Native 'WebGL' Rendering for R Graphics

Provides browser-native 'WebGL' rendering for R graphics through 'htmlwidgets'. The package supports grammar-style graphics workflows and renderer-ready specifications for dense analytical and scientific scenes, including point, line, trajectory, raster, vector, mesh, and surface layers, shader-driven display modes, timeline controls, structured views, selection metadata, and publication-oriented static export helpers. Rendering stays in the browser, and the core package remains cross-platform without requiring 'CUDA', 'Metal', or 'OpenCL' toolchains.

Version: 0.4.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: ggplot2, htmltools, htmlwidgets, rlang
Suggests: chromote, knitr, magick, pkgdown, pkgload, plotly, processx, rmarkdown, shiny, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-05-04
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ggWebGL (may not be active yet)
Author: Frederic Bertrand ORCID iD [cre, aut]
Maintainer: Frederic Bertrand <frederic.bertrand at lecnam.net>
BugReports: https://github.com/fbertran/ggWebGL/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://fbertran.github.io/ggWebGL/, https://github.com/fbertran/ggWebGL
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: ggWebGL citation info
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: ggWebGL results

Documentation:

Reference manual: ggWebGL.html , ggWebGL.pdf
Vignettes: Swarm Art in the Browser with boids4R (source, R code)
Getting Started with ggWebGL (source, R code)
Optional XGeoRTR Bridge (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: ggWebGL_0.4.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: ggWebGL_0.4.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): ggWebGL_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): ggWebGL_0.4.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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