Is there a seaborn for R?

Yes. reaborn is a faithful R port of Python's seaborn, built on ggplot2. It implements all ~40 seaborn functions (scatterplot, lineplot, histplot, kdeplot, boxplot, violinplot, barplot, heatmap, pairplot, jointplot, and more) with identical names, arguments, and defaults.

How do I use seaborn in R?

Install reaborn and call library(reaborn). That sets seaborn's theme and palette globally (like sns.set_theme()) and exposes sns.-prefixed aliases, so sns.scatterplot(data=penguins, x='bill_length_mm', y='bill_depth_mm', hue='species') runs verbatim in R.

Can I use seaborn plots with ggplot2?

Yes. Every reaborn plot is a real ggplot object, so you can extend it with the full ggplot2 grammar of graphics, e.g. scatterplot(...) + facet_wrap(~g) + scale_x_log10() + theme(...). This is something seaborn itself cannot do.

Do reaborn plots look exactly like seaborn?

They are designed to be visually indistinguishable. Palettes match seaborn's hex codes to the digit, KDEs reproduce scipy.stats.gaussian_kde to machine precision, histogram bins match numpy.histogram_bin_edges exactly, and confidence intervals use seaborn's bootstrap rather than ggplot's analytic standard error.

Changelog • reaborn

reaborn v1.0.1

CRAN release: 2026-07-03

Patch release fixing a critical bug in how NA values were handled.

What’s Changed

Update README.md with CRAN badges by @shawntz in #48
chore(figures): refresh comparison figures by @github-actions[bot] in #46
chore(figures): refresh hero collage by @github-actions[bot] in #47
fix(kdeplot): honor cmap and correct contour levels in filled bivariate KDE by @shawntz in #49
feat(histplot): add bivariate 2-D histogram (count heatmap) mode by @shawntz in #50
docs: add runnable example plots to every plot reference page by @shawntz in #51
chore(figures): refresh hero collage by @github-actions[bot] in #52
chore(figures): refresh comparison figures by @github-actions[bot] in #53
chore: bump version to 1.0.0.9000 by @shawntz in #54
Gate bivariate histogram colorbar on legend = FALSE by @shawntz in #56
chore(figures): refresh comparison figures by @github-actions[bot] in #55
chore(figures): refresh hero collage by @github-actions[bot] in #57
Clarify histplot bivariate docs for hue and cbar_kws by @shawntz in #58
chore(figures): refresh hero collage by @github-actions[bot] in #59
chore(figures): refresh comparison figures by @github-actions[bot] in #60
fix(docs): close histplot.Rd block to fix R CMD check by @shawntz in #61
fix(datasets): read empty CSV fields as NA to match pandas/seaborn by @shawntz in #62
fix(countplot): draw horizontal bars when the category is assigned to y by @shawntz in #63
chore(figures): refresh hero collage by @github-actions[bot] in #64
chore(figures): refresh comparison figures by @github-actions[bot] in #65
fix(displot): drop NA facet levels to prevent empty-group KDE error by @shawntz in #66
chore(figures): refresh hero collage by @github-actions[bot] in #67
chore(figures): refresh comparison figures by @github-actions[bot] in #68

Full Changelog: https://github.com/shawntz/reaborn/compare/v1.0.0…v1.0.1

reaborn v1.0.0

CRAN release: 2026-06-30

Initial release.

What’s Changed

v0.0.0.9000 by @shawntz in #1
Add air format check CI workflow and config by @shawntz in #12
Add air format suggest CI workflow by @shawntz in #8
Add main branch version badge workflow by @shawntz in #9
Remove look-alike sentence from pkgdown homepage figcaption by @shawntz in #2
fix(barplot): match seaborn CI error-bar line thickness by @shawntz in #3
Fix grammar on ‘seaborn defaults, on import’ card by @shawntz in #4
Rework landing-page fidelity card for accuracy by @shawntz in #5
Match seaborn’s colorbar format in heatmap() by @shawntz in #7
Adopt eyeris multi-platform build/check workflow by @shawntz in #10
Match seaborn’s KDE/hue legend styling by @shawntz in #11
ci: regenerate hero collage on merge to main by @shawntz in #13
Add spellcheck CI workflow for R package docs by @shawntz in #14
Match seaborn’s legend background color and inside placement by @shawntz in #6
style: apply air formatting across the codebase by @shawntz in #15
chore(figures): refresh hero collage by @github-actions[bot] in #17
docs: add status badges to README and pkgdown home page by @shawntz in #18
chore: add spelling WORDLIST to pass spellcheck by @shawntz in #16
chore(figures): refresh hero collage by @github-actions[bot] in #19
chore: add Lifecycle and pkgdown to WORDLIST by @shawntz in #21
fix(ci): stop hero-collage workflow from looping refresh PRs by @shawntz in #22
chore: rename pkgdown badge title to “website” by @shawntz in #23
chore: add “dev” to spellcheck wordlist by @shawntz in #25
chore(badge): relabel “main” version badge as “dev version” by @shawntz in #24
chore(figures): refresh hero collage by @github-actions[bot] in #20
ci(figures): auto-regenerate compare-*.png on code changes by @shawntz in #26
chore(figures): refresh comparison figures by @github-actions[bot] in #27
docs(comparison): remove fidelity paragraph from vs Seaborn page by @shawntz in #28
docs(comparison): drop palette-system bullet from vs-seaborn page by @shawntz in #29
docs(comparison): remove statistics bullet from vs seaborn page by @shawntz in #30
docs(comparison): remove “honest framing” sentence from vs seaborn page by @shawntz in #31
docs(comparison): reword “skip the boilerplate” bullet by @shawntz in #32
docs(comparison): remove feature comparison table from vs Seaborn page by @shawntz in #34
docs: add NEWS.md changelog for pkgdown site by @shawntz in #33
feat(logo): hex sticker logo + right-aligned README logo by @shawntz in #35
Update README.md by @shawntz in #36
Set new hex sticker logo as website favicon by @shawntz in #37
feat(website): show hex sticker logo in navbar on every page by @shawntz in #38
fix(website): show navbar hex logo on all pages (root-relative paths) by @shawntz in #39
chore: ignore .air.toml in package build by @shawntz in #40
fix(website): use absolute URL for navbar logo to unblock pkgdown build by @shawntz in #41

New Contributors

@shawntz made their first contribution in #1
@github-actions[bot] made their first contribution in #17

Full Changelog: https://github.com/shawntz/reaborn/commits/v1.0.0