Violin plots allow to visualize the distribution of a numeric variable for one or several groups. They are very well adapted for large dataset, as stated in data-to-viz.com. They're often used to replace boxplot.
Violin charts can be produced with ggplot2 thanks to the
geom_violin() function. The
first chart of the
series below describes its basic utilization and explain how to build
violin chart from different input format.
It is doable to plot a violin chart using base R and the
Vioplot library..
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