Note: this is very pre-alpha, but should be close to complete by the end of the week
parcoords gives R users the very well designed and interactive parallel-coordinates chart for d3 with the infrastructure, flexibility, and robustness of htmlwidgets.
# not on CRAN so use devtools::install_github to try it out
# devtools::install_github("timelyportfolio/parcoords")
library(parcoords)
data(mtcars)
parcoords(
mtcars
,reorderable = T
,brushMode = "2d-strums"
)