ggdensity: Improved Bivariate Density Visualization in R

Abstract

The [ggdensity](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ggdensity) R package extends the functionality of [ggplot2](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ggplot2) by providing more interpretable visualizations of bivariate density estimates using highest density regions (HDRs). The visualizations are created via drop-in replacements for the standard [ggplot2](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ggplot2) functions used for this purpose: geom_hdr() for geom_density_2d_filled() and geom_hdr_lines() for geom_density_2d(). These new geoms improve on those of [ggplot2](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ggplot2) by communicating the probabilities associated with the displayed regions. Various statistically rigorous estimators are available, as well as convenience functions geom_hdr_fun() and geom_hdr_fun_lines() for plotting HDRs of user-specified probability density functions. Associated geoms for rug plots and pointdensity scatterplots are also presented.