# circlize

> Circular visualization in R, such as chord diagrams and Circos-style genomic plots.

- Category: [R data visualization packages](https://awesomedataviz.com/categories/r/)
- Website: http://jokergoo.github.io/circlize_book/book/
- Repository: https://github.com/jokergoo/circlize
- License: MIT
- Language: R
- Status: Inactive (no commits in over a year)
- GitHub stars: 1,024
- Commits in the last 12 months: 0
- Contributors: 5
- Last commit: Nov 11, 2023
- Install (CRAN): `install.packages("circlize")`, 10.8K downloads per week
- Topics: Diagrams & diagrams as code

## Overview

circlize is an open-source R visualization package released under the MIT license. Its GitHub repository has 1,024 stars, 148 forks, and 5 contributors. It has not had a commit since Nov 11, 2023. On CRAN it is downloaded about 10.8K times per week.

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