gantt

Gantt is a R package created to fast and easy designing Gantt chart for your projects. It allows you to customize it with different options like creating paths, changing colors and sizes. Package is still in development so more powerful customization options will be added in next releases.

Usage

Package usage is very simple. Drawing a Gantt chart follows four steps:

  • Create a csv file with your project schedule
  • Create a task data.frame with read_task function
  • Create a styling configuration list with create_gantt_config function
  • Draw a Gantt chart with gantt function where task data.frame and styling list are parameters

Creating CSV file with tasks

Task file should contain following columns

  • start date when given task starts
  • end date when given task ends
  • task name of task
  • type string denoting task type
  • stage string describing stage to which task belongs
  • control integer saying which tasks are dependent of each other (same value means dependance)

Example

There is an example csv file task within the package

library(gantt)
file_path <- system.file("extdata", "example_task_1.csv", package = "gantt")
task <- read_task(file_path)
conf <- create_gantt_config()
gantt(task, conf)

You can view example file structure from R with

View(read.csv(file_path, sep = ';'))

Cheatsheet