Highcharts plugins

Highcharts can be extended through plugins that allow us to add functionality without disturbing the core layer of code and are easy to share. There is a library of plugins available online contributed by Highcharts staff and other users at http://www.highcharts.com/plugin-registry. One distinct advantage of developing features out of plugins is that we can pick and choose the plugin features and build a compressed JavaScript library from them. In fact, we can already do something similar with the Highcharts library on the download page.

In this section, we will take a tour of a couple of plugins that you may find handy.

The regression plot plugin

When we create a scatter plot with lots of data points, it is often worthwhile to ...

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