Plot inside a loop using highcharter

Question

I am using highcharter for my graphs. I have different courses, which I need to draw same graphs for all. I am trying to have a for loop over courses and plot these graphs inside my loop. The problem that it doesnt plot anything inside the loop and it works fine from outside the loop.

for(i in unique(my_data$CourseID)){
  courseData<-subset(my_data, my_data$CourseID== i)

  #Course by Majer
  byMajer <- table(courseData$MajerName)
  #barplot(byMajer, main="Students by Majer", xlab="Majers") 

  byM <- aggregate(courseData$MajerName, by=list(courseData$MajerName), FUN=length)

  hc <- highchart(debug = TRUE) %>% 
  hc_title(text = courseData$CourseName[1]) %>% 
  hc_chart(type = "column") %>% 
  hc_xAxis(categories = byM$Group.1) %>% 
  hc_add_series(data = byM$x)

  #this is not working. it shows nothing.
  hc

  #but if I try to have this, it works, I will use below variables outside the loop
  assign(paste("hc",i,sep=""), hc)
}

#Below graphs showing in the output. I need to get rid of them and use the one inside the loop.
hc1; hc2; hc3; hc4; hc5; hc6; hc7; hc8; hc9; hc10; hc11; hc12; hc13; hc14; hc15; hc16; hc17; hc18

Answer 1

Answer to the problem is here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4716380/4046096

In short: Automatic printing is turned off in a loop, so you need to explicitly print something.

Instead of hc use print(hc).

I do not have your data, but this code works fine:

for(i in c(1,2,3,4,5)){
  hc <- highchart(debug = TRUE) %>% 
  hc_chart(type = "column") %>% 
  hc_add_series(data = list(1, i, i * 2, 5))

  print(hc)
}