How to produce scatterplot with a factor as y in highcharter?
问题 Problem: I would like to produce a scatter plot with highcharter::hchart , where y is a factor , and x is a date . Apparently, highcharter::hchart "scatter" does not accept factor variables as y. Is there any workaround? Or is "scatter" just the wrong charttype? (Comment: I know ggplotly would be a good alternative, but I actually need a highcharter solution) Example: Let's suppose I want to produce a timeline of publications by type . I want a scatterplot with d$type (=y-axis) and d$date (=x