I've recently managed to reproduce my first charts using the nice package rNVD3 from Ramnath Vaidyanathan:
https://github.com/ramnathv/rNVD3
This rNVD3 package uses NVD3, which provides re-usable charts with d3.js, without taking away the power that d3.js brings with itself. But let's make a "Hello world" type of example, with the minimum complexity in it.
For this, I...

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