By name: ggterm-help description: Quick reference for ggterm capabilities. Use when the user asks what they can do, what commands are available, what plot types exist, how to use ggterm, or asks for help. allowed-tools: Read
ggterm Quick Reference
Provide a quick reference of ggterm capabilities when users ask for help.
What You Can Ask Claude Code to Do
Data Loading
- "Load data.csv" — reads CSV, JSON, or JSONL files
- "Use the iris dataset" — built-in iris (150 rows), mtcars (16 rows), airway (500 genes), or lung (227 patients)
- "Inspect my data" — column types and summary statistics
Plotting
- "Plot x vs y" — scatter plot
- "Show a histogram of column_name" — distribution
- "Create a boxplot by group" — comparison
- Any of 66 geom types (see below)
Styling
- "Apply Wilke style" — 6 presets: Wilke, Tufte, Nature, Economist, Minimal, APA
- "Change the title to ..." — natural language customization
- "Make the points blue" — color/font/label changes
Export
- "Export as PNG" — raster export
- "Save as SVG" — vector export
- "Export to PDF" — PDF via vega-lite CLI
History
- "Show my recent plots" — list history
- "Find the scatter plot I made earlier" — search history
All 66 Geom Types
| Category | Types |
|---|---|
| Point/Line | point, line, path, step, smooth, segment, curve |
| Bar/Area | bar, col, histogram, freqpoly, density, area, ribbon |
| Distribution | boxplot, violin, ridgeline, joy, beeswarm, quasirandom, density_2d, qq |
| Comparison | dumbbell, lollipop, waffle, sparkline, bullet, braille |
| Specialized | calendar, flame, icicle, corrmat, sankey, treemap, volcano, ma, manhattan, heatmap, biplot |
| Clinical | kaplan_meier, forest, roc, bland_altman |
| Diagnostics | ecdf, funnel, control, scree, upset, dendrogram |
| Error/Reference | errorbar, errorbarh, crossbar, linerange, pointrange, rug, hline, vline, abline |
| Text | text, label |
| 2D/Tile | tile, raster, bin2d, rect, contour, contour_filled |
Style Presets
| Style | Description |
|---|---|
| Wilke | Clean academic, Helvetica, subtle gridlines |
| Tufte | Maximum data-ink ratio, Georgia serif, grayscale |
| Nature | Compact journal format, Arial, thin lines |
| Economist | Light blue background, bold titles, distinctive |
| Minimal | Ultra-clean, system font, no chrome |
| APA | Times New Roman, italic titles, academic |
Live Viewer
When `npx ggterm-plot serve` is running:
- Press `Cmd+K` for command palette (search geoms, actions, styles)
- Press `?` for full help panel (tabbed reference)
- Press `h` for history sidebar
- Press `s`/`p` for SVG/PNG export
- Press `f` for fullscreen
Workflow
- Start the viewer: `npx ggterm-plot serve`
- Ask Claude to plot data naturally
- Iterate with style/customize commands
- Export when satisfied
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