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mlr3viz vs rvest
A side-by-side editorial comparison of mlr3viz and rvest — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
mlr3viz vs rvest: at a glance
What is mlr3viz?
mlr3viz keeps the ecosystem's plots working while the plots themselves move out
mlr3viz supplies autoplot methods across mlr3 objects — learners, resample and benchmark results, tuning instances, ensemble feature-selection results. Recent releases are mostly defensive: suppressing ggplot2::fortify() warnings on ROC and PRC curves, pinning legend order so plots are deterministic across ggplot2 environments, and tracking mlr3 1.7.2. A visible piece of scope also left, with the LearnerSurvCoxPH plot moving to mlr3proba.
What is rvest?
rvest grew a real browser, turning a static scraper into a dynamic one.
rvest is the tidyverse's HTML scraping package. The 1.0.0 line rebuilt table parsing to mimic how browsers actually read tables, and 1.0.4 added read_html_live(), which drives a headless browser so JavaScript-rendered pages can be scraped at all. 1.0.5 is consolidation on that newer path.
mlr3viz vs rvest: editorial side-by-side
mlr3viz
2.5ANALYTICS
mlr3viz keeps the ecosystem's plots working while the plots themselves move out
◆ Current state
mlr3viz supplies autoplot methods across mlr3 objects — learners, resample and benchmark results, tuning instances, ensemble feature-selection results. Recent releases are mostly defensive: suppressing ggplot2::fortify() warnings on ROC and PRC curves, pinning legend order so plots are deterministic across ggplot2 environments, and tracking mlr3 1.7.2. A visible piece of scope also left, with the LearnerSurvCoxPH plot moving to mlr3proba.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is being narrowed toward generic plotting infrastructure while learner-specific plots migrate to the packages that own those learners. What it does add is access rather than new charts — passing parameters through to precrec::autoplot(), better hints when the wrong autoplot type is requested, and a confidence-interval plot for mlr3inferr. Determinism across ggplot2 versions has become a recurring concern, which is what happens when a visualization package is depended on by documentation and tests.
◆ Prediction
Following the Cox proportional-hazards precedent, further learner-specific plots are likely to move to their owning packages, leaving mlr3viz with the cross-cutting result objects.
rvest
0.0ANALYTICS
rvest grew a real browser, turning a static scraper into a dynamic one.
◆ Current state
rvest is the tidyverse's HTML scraping package. The 1.0.0 line rebuilt table parsing to mimic how browsers actually read tables, and 1.0.4 added read_html_live(), which drives a headless browser so JavaScript-rendered pages can be scraped at all. 1.0.5 is consolidation on that newer path.
◆ Where it's heading
The package has split into two modes: fast static parsing for ordinary documents, and a live browser session for client-rendered ones. Recent effort concentrates on hardening the live path, where page navigation and interaction bugs surface that never existed in static parsing.
◆ Prediction
Expect further fixes and documentation around read_html_live() as more scraping targets move rendering to the client.
Alternatives to mlr3viz and rvest
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either mlr3viz or rvest.
rstanarm
rstanarm is community-maintained now, tracking Stan and lme4 rather than adding models.
taxa
taxa started a ground-up rewrite in 2021 and has published almost nothing since.
rotl
rotl's whole release history is keeping name matching honest against a moving taxonomy.
taxize
taxize spends its releases absorbing other people's API changes, one dead source at a time.
osmdata
osmdata keeps tightening its Overpass query surface, breaking small things to get types right.
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Recent activity from mlr3viz and rvest
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 18d agomlr3vizmlr3viz 0.11.1 pins legend order for deterministic plots
- 5mo agomlr3vizmlr3viz 0.11.0 quiets ggplot2 fortify warnings on ROC curves
- 11mo agorvestrvest 1.0.5 fixes stale nodes after click navigation in LiveHTML
- 1y agomlr3vizmlr3viz 0.10.1 passes plotting parameters through to precrec
- 1y agomlr3vizmlr3viz 0.10.0 adds a LearnerSurvCoxPH plot
- 2y agomlr3vizmlr3viz 0.9.0 adds EnsembleFSResult plots
- 2y agomlr3vizmlr3viz 0.8.0 tracks paradox 1.0.0
- 2y agorvestrvest 1.0.4 scrapes JavaScript pages via a live browser session ⚡
- 3y agorvestrvest 1.0.3 re-documents to fix .Rd HTML issues
- 4y agorvestrvest 1.0.2 returns empty tibbles for empty tables
- 5y agorvestrvest 1.0.1 parses blank rowspan and colspan as 1
- 5y agorvestrvest 1.0.0 rewrites table parsing to match browser behaviour
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between mlr3viz and rvest?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. mlr3viz is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is mlr3viz better than rvest?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. mlr3viz is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to mlr3viz?
Top mlr3viz alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "mlr3viz alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/mlr3viz for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to rvest?
Top rvest alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "rvest alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/rvest for the full list with editorial commentary on each.