R Observatory: Metrics for MSG version 0.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MSG

0.9Package record

Data and Functions for the Book Modern Statistical Graphics

0packages depend

4.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A companion to the Chinese book ``Modern Statistical Graphics''.

Changes in 0.9

Added a suggested dependency to DESCRIPTION per CRAN's request.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("MSG", 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("yihui/MSG")

Development version from yihui/MSG. 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-msg

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-MSG

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-MSG

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  MSG/demo/gradArrows1.R (.Names: 1)
  MSG/demo/gradArrows2.R (.Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9

READMEYes · 127 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 20includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%18 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 45%

Also includes 24 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

4.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,137 · ~13/day · ~404/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

51830 days

1.2K90 days

4.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on82 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

yihui/msg ↗Account: yihui

38Stars

7Forks

23Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

136Commits

6Commit identities

rr-packagestatistical-graphicschinese-book

136 commits · Last activity 2026-02-26 · Default branch at 0.9.1, ahead of CRAN 0.9 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/yihui/msg on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MSG adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 11 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: RColorBrewer 11 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

RColorBrewer

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

animation igraph KernSmooth (>= 2.23.15)maps mvtnorm rgl (>= 0.100.30)RgoogleMaps plotrix ggplot2gridMASSsna

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2011)

Peng Zhao

Author · added in 0.4

Xiangyun Huang

Contributor · added in 0.4

Lijia Yu

Contributor · added in 0.4

Releases (12)

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-01-28
Total releases: 12 / 15 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.0 MB / 14 files
Download size: 1.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MSG")

Format

Xie, Y., Huang, X., Yu, L., & Zhao, P. (2026). MSG: Data and Functions for the Book Modern Statistical Graphics (Version 0.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MSG

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 MSG version 0.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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