Michael Bostock

Create interactive heat maps that are usable from the R console, in the 'RStudio' viewer pane, in 'R Markdown' documents, and in 'Shiny' apps. Hover the mouse pointer over a cell to show details, drag a rectangle to zoom, and click row/column labels to highlight.

Create and customize interactive maps using the 'Leaflet' JavaScript library and the 'htmlwidgets' package. These maps can be used directly from the R console, from 'RStudio', in Shiny applications and R Markdown documents.

Tools that create D3 JavaScript force directed graph from R. D3 JavaScript was created by Michael Bostock. See http://d3js.org/ and, more specifically for Force Directed Graph https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Force-Layout.

Web-based interactive charts (using D3.js) for the analysis of experimental crosses to identify genetic loci (quantitative trait loci, QTL) contributing to variation in quantitative traits.