# How to render ggplot2 plots in html through Weave and RCall?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-render-ggplot2-plots-in-html-through-weave-and-rcall/74913
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** weave, rcall
**Created:** [January 20, 2022, 8:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-render-ggplot2-plots-in-html-through-weave-and-rcall/74913 "2022-01-20T08:29:17Z")
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### Author:  [@tp2750](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tp2750)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2022, 8:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-render-ggplot2-plots-in-html-through-weave-and-rcall/74913/1 "2022-01-20T08:29:17Z")
How do I include plots made with ggplot2 (through RCall) in html reports through Weave?
I try this (which works in a Jupyter notebook):
```julia
using RCall, DataFrames
d = DataFrame(x = [1,2,3], y = [4,5,6])
@rput d
@rlibrary ggplot2
ggplot(d, aes(x=:x,y=:y)) + geom_line()
```
and process it like this: `using Weave; weave("test.jmd"; doctype = "md2html")`
It gives this output:
I can work around it like this:
```julia
using RCall, DataFrames
d = DataFrame(x = [1,2,3], y = [4,5,6])
@rput d
R"""
library(ggplot2)
p <- ggplot(d, aes(x=x,y=y)) + geom_line()
png("plot01.png")
print(p)
dev.off()
"""
```
Then in the markdown put:
```julia
```
But that is not very satisfactory, as I need to manage filenames myself, and the plot is not embedded in the html output as native julia plots are.
Has anybody found a way around this?
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### Author:  [@haberdashPI](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/haberdashPI)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-render-ggplot2-plots-in-html-through-weave-and-rcall/74913/2 "2022-01-22T13:52:50Z")
Sorry, I’ve not run into this myself.
I was wondering what your motivation for using ggplot was… (it is an awesome library!). If it’s that you want a grammar-of-graphics-like approach to plotting in Julia: are you aware of [AlgebraOfGraphics.jl](http://juliaplots.org/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl/stable/) or [VegaLite.jl](https://www.queryverse.org/VegaLite.jl/stable/)? They have similar design philosophies to ggplot and are being actively developed. e.g.
```julia
using AlgebraOfGraphics
d = DataFrame(x = [1,2,3], y = [4,5,6])
plt = data(d) * mapping(:x, :y) * visual(Lines)
draw(plt)
```
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### Author:  [@tp2750](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tp2750)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-render-ggplot2-plots-in-html-through-weave-and-rcall/74913/3 "2022-01-23T13:14:45Z")
Thanks for the suggestions @haberdashPI . I should probably look more into those options. Currently I’m trying to master Plots.jl.
My actual example is a bit more complex, but I’ll post it and ask for help with that as well 🙂
I’ve posed the example here: [How to make this plot in Julia?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-this-plot-in-julia/75065)