R Observatory: Metrics for PlotTools version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PlotTools

0.4.0Package record

Extended Tools for Continuous Legends, Polygon Manipulation, and Visual Display of Categorical Data

4packages dependsuggested by 2

41.3Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin R. SmithCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Annotate plots with legends for continuous variables and colour spectra using the base graphics plotting tools; and manipulate irregular polygons. Includes palettes for colour-blind viewers.

Changes in 0.4.0

Add colour-blind friendly palettes cbPalette12, cbPalette15, cbPalette24 and deuteranopic equivalents altPaletteXX.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PlotTools", 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("ms609/PlotTools")

Development version from ms609/PlotTools. 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-plottools

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-PlotTools

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-PlotTools

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 57 s · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMEYes · 125 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 65%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

41.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,079 · ~113/day · ~3.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.1K30 days

8.6K90 days

41.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on673 r2u4 autocran1.8K conda_forge52 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ms609/plottools ↗Account: ms609

1Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

245Commits

3Commit identities

legendsplottingrr-packagespectrumcolourblindnesspalettespolygons

245 commits · Last activity 2026-09-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-11-22 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ms609/plottools 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

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-24

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-24

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-09-24
Commits: at least 5 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 5.55 commits · Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PlotTools adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr rmarkdown sp spelling testthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

22indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

TreeTools Ternary TreeSearch Quartet

Suggests, most downloaded first

TreeDist Rogue

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Martin R. Smith

Martin Krzywinski

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.0Latest
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2026-01-29 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.1
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2024-09-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.0
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2023-10-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
Col2Hex
0.2.1
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2023-09-28 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2023-05-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
GrowPolygon, PolygonArea, PolygonCenter, PolygonCentre
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0
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2023-04-18
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-04-18
Total releases: 6 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 2.2 KB / 8 files
Download size: 44 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("PlotTools")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.5281/zenodo.7803390.

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 PlotTools version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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