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The RStudio website has a very interesting visualization as shown below:

https://gallery.shinyapps.io/TSupplyDemand/

Unfortunately, I cannot seem to pin down the source code, package, or even more simply, the name of this visualization.

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone was able to point my research in the right direction. I suspect that knowing the name of the visualization will help me resolve the remaining questions quite quickly.

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  • Judging from the page, it is *not* a specific visualization but a custom application. Why don't you contact the author? – Panagiotis Kanavos Dec 21 '15 at 14:49
  • @PanagiotisKanavos I think he was asking for the name of the diagram and not the application. – Perfection Dec 21 '15 at 14:55
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram – Stedy Dec 21 '15 at 15:00
  • @Perfection I didn't think he was. I thought that this was a custom-made visualization though, not a specific type. Which is why I didn't vote to close, and I'll vote to reopen if this question is closed. – Panagiotis Kanavos Dec 21 '15 at 15:14
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    You could also consider the riverplot package and this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24954562/r-riverplot-package-uses-sankey-diagram – lawyeR Dec 21 '15 at 16:03

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It's a Sankey Diagram, where the width of the edges is proportional to the amount transferred between nodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram

This answer on SO suggests that rCharts can be used to create such plots.

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