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It's not THAT R-like. Looking at the front page, their bar chart of performance of their machine learning algorithms is done in Excel. I like to think that no R user would post R benchmarks using an Excel bar chart.

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running stuff from the console is R-like; clearly Java doesn't have a ggplot2

  ... clearly Java doesn't have a ggplot2

JFreeChart[0] is likely what many would reach for in the JVM ecosphere to perform ggplot2-type functionality, though Scala devs might want to use something like scala-chart[1] or similar.

0 - http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/samples.html

1 - https://github.com/wookietreiber/scala-chart

This software has its own visualization package. See it at

http://haifengl.github.io/smile/visualization.html

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