Layouts should have orientations.

[mbostock]

Currently, you have to do some tedious dancing to change the orientation of d3.cluster, d3.tree or d3.partition, for example swapping x ↔︎ y and width ↔︎ height. It’d be nice if these layouts supported orientations, so that it was trivial to replace the default top-to-bottom tree with a bottom-to-top tree or a left-to-right, etc.

• d3.partition = d3.partitionDown
• d3.partitionUp
• d3.partitionDown
• d3.partitionLeft
• d3.partitionRight
• d3.partitionRadial
• d3.tree = d3.treeDown
• d3.treeUp
• d3.treeDown
• d3.treeLeft
• d3.treeRight
• d3.treeRadial
• d3.cluster = d3.clusterDown
• d3.clusterUp
• d3.clusterDown
• d3.clusterLeft
• d3.clusterRight
• d3.clusterRadial

[mbostock]

Also, radial orientations.

[ixxie]

We are trying to flip our d3.cluster at the moment; until this feature is implemented it may be nice to have an example of this sort of thing document, perhaps here (where google landed me)?

[Misiu]

@ixxie something like this?

[curran]

The dancing is not really that tedious IMO. Orientation feels like it does not need to be core functionality.

I wonder if it might be possible to introduce generic transforms that could be applied as a separate step, after computing the original layouts. That way the pain point would be adressed, while introducing less new API surface area.