R Observatory: Metrics for GoldenVizR version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GoldenVizR

0.1.0

Rule-Based Quality Checks for 'ggplot2' Visualizations Based on the 25 Golden Rules of Data Visualization

0packages depend

132downloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Wajdi Ben SaadFirst published 2026-07-301 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Quality-checking tools for reviewing R data visualizations built with the 'ggplot2' library against the 25 GoldenViz rules described at https://goldenviz.org/. The package provides a visual QA and teaching layer that helps users identify common chart clarity, readability, and integrity issues.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("GoldenVizR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("WajdiBenSaad/GoldenViz_R")

Development version from WajdiBenSaad/GoldenViz_R. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-goldenvizr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-GoldenVizR

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-GoldenVizR

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.36

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
9 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-31
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 572 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

132

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,611 · ~0/day · ~11/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

13230 days

13290 days

1321 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ wajdibensaad/goldenviz_r

7Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

34Commits

1Contributors

analyticschartsdata-analysisdatasciencedatavisualizationdatavizvisualization

License AGPL-3.0 · 34 commits · Last activity 2026-08-05

Issues over time

2026-07-31 · 02026-08-06 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/wajdibensaad/goldenviz_r on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (2)

ggplot2 htmltools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat knitr rmarkdown roxygen2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Wajdi Ben Saad

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Wajdi Ben Saad

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.0Latest
2026-07-30 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-30
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: AGPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("GoldenVizR")

Format

Ben Saad, W. (2026). GoldenVizR: Rule-Based Quality Checks for 'ggplot2' Visualizations Based on the 25 Golden Rules of Data Visualization (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.GoldenVizR

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for GoldenVizR version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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