How do you create a bar and line plot with R dygraphs?

Question

I would like to create a bar and line chart using dygraphs, which seems like it should be possible based on the \"Bar & Line Chart\" dygraphs example here, and the

Answer 1

I am not sure this is exactly what you want. What I propose, comes close to the combination of a bar plot and a line plot, without the need to create a separate function.

You can set the type of plot per series, with dySeries. You can choose between lineplot (default), stepPlot, and stemPlot. In addition you may set to see the points with drawPoints and pointSize, you may also opt to fill the graph or not with fillGraph. For other options type ?dySeries

The code looks as follows:

library(dygraphs)

lungDeaths <- cbind(ldeaths, mdeaths)

dygraph(lungDeaths, main = "Main Title") %>%
  dySeries("ldeaths", drawPoints = FALSE) %>%
  dySeries("mdeaths", stepPlot = TRUE, fillGraph = TRUE)

Yielding this plot:

Please, let me know whether this is what you want.