lessR has just undergone a major upgrade, including many more data visualization possibilities and interactive graphics. I would appreciate any feedback regarding this new version. Most of the original function calls still work but now the underlying structure is based on only three functions, so best to use these functions directly:
Chart(): all charts of grouping data from summary tables, such as bar charts
X(): plot the distribution of a single numerical variable on the X-axis
XY(): plot the relationship of two variables or more on the X-axis and Y-axis
Find a quick overview of these new functions in a brief article, available now at:
https://web.pdx.edu/~gerbing/lessR/lessRoverview.docx
A version of this article will appear in an online magazine available January, 2026 at https://www.openaccessgovernment.org.
The referenced version below of lessR is 4.49, in anticipation of placing it on the official R servers as Version 4.5 around December 15 if it all continues to check out. This is a 3-step process.
1. Download lessR 4.49 at one of the following addresses.
Windows: https://web.pdx.edu/~gerbing/lessR/lessR_4.4.9.zip
Mac: https://web.pdx.edu/~gerbing/lessR/lessR_4.4.9.tgz
2. Install the new version of lessR. where "path_name" refers to the location and file name of the downloaded package on your computer system.
Windows: install.packages("path_name", repos = NULL, type = "win.binary")
Mac: install.packages("path_name", repos = NULL, type = "mac.binary")
3. Because we are not installing from the official R servers, manually download the R packages on which lessR depends:
install.packages(c("latticeExtra", "robustbase", "ellipse", "leaps", "openxlsx", "colorspace", "shiny", "knitr", "kableExtra", "xts", "zoo", "MASS", "conflicted", "plotly", "htmlwidgets", "htmltools"))