Chart.js vs. SpreadJS vs. ggplot2 vs. jQuery Comparison Chart

Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers. Layout boxes can be stacked and weighted in groups. A secondary title plugin with all the same options as the main title. Line segments can be styled by any user-defined criteria. Transitions of every property in every element can be configured individually and independently. Numerous performance enhancements have been introduced. Mix and match bar and line charts to provide a clear visual distinction between datasets. Plot complex, sparse datasets on date time, logarithmic, or even entirely custom scales with ease. Out of the box stunning transitions when changing data, updating colors, and adding datasets. Chart.js is a community-maintained project, contributions welcome! Visualize your data in 8 different ways, each of them animated and customizable. Redraws charts on window resize for perfect scale granularity. Includes new chart axis types.

ggplot2 is a system for declaratively creating graphics, based on The Grammar of Graphics. You provide the data, tell ggplot2 how to map variables to aesthetics, what graphical primitives to use, and it takes care of the details. ggplot2 is now over 10 years old and is used by hundreds of thousands of people to make millions of plots. That means, by-and-large, ggplot2 itself changes relatively little. When we do make changes, they will be generally to add new functions or arguments rather than changing the behavior of existing functions, and if we do make changes to existing behavior we will do them for compelling reasons. If you are new to ggplot2 you are better off starting with a systematic introduction, rather than trying to learn from reading individual documentation pages.