GoogleVis and R – Tutorial

During the first week of the “Developing Data Products” MOOC on Coursera, one of the lessons deals with GoogleVis. This is one of the ways to publish and animate your R charts. In practice GoogleVis provides an interface between R and the Google Charts Tools, allowing you to create interactive web charts from R without uploading your data to Google. I have found the lesson a little bit confusing and I felt the need to find out a little bit more. So, I googled for it, and I found this article on r-bloggers, which eventually pointed to this little but comprehensive free tutorial on www.datacamp.com (offering verified tests at each steps and a certificate of completion). I thought it was a little pearl that deserved to be shared once more.