R Observatory: Metrics for afcharts version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

afcharts

0.5.1

Produce Charts Following UK Government Analysis Function Guidance

0packages depend

5.3Kdownloads / year

94.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Olivia Box PowerFirst published 2024-11-063 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Colour palettes and a 'ggplot2' theme to follow the UK Government Analysis Function best practice guidance for producing data visualisations, available at https://analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/data-visualisation-charts/. Includes continuous and discrete colour and fill scales, as well as a 'ggplot2' theme.

Install

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

install.packages("afcharts", 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("best-practice-and-impact/afcharts")

Development version from best-practice-and-impact/afcharts. 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-afcharts

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-afcharts

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-afcharts

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.31

94.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 411 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,553 · ~15/day · ~441/mo

Releases R versions

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37930 days

1.3K90 days

5.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ best-practice-and-impact/afcharts

28Stars

5Forks

10Open issues

2Open PRs

3Releases

403Commits

13Contributors

403 commits · Last activity 2026-08-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/best-practice-and-impact/afcharts on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Governance and community (1)

Support guide

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

ggplot2 scales cli rlang dplyr purrrstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

ggtext knitr rmarkdown tibble tidyr glue stringr testthat plotly gt svglite ragg (>= 1.2.6)gapminder diffviewer vdiffr withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Olivia Box Power

Maintainer, Contributor

Authors (1)

Alice Hannah

Author

Contributors (1)

Olivia Box Power

Maintainer, Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Crown Copyright

Copyright holder

Funders (1)

Government Analysis Function

Funder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Government Analysis Function Analysis.Function@ons.gov.uk

no longer listed · 0.4.0 to 0.5.1

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.1Latest
2026-02-26 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.1
2025-01-13 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2024-11-06
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-06
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.1 KB / 6 files
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("afcharts")

Format

Box Power, O., Crown Copyright, Government Analysis Function, & Hannah, A. (2026). afcharts: Produce Charts Following UK Government Analysis Function Guidance (Version 0.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.afcharts

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for afcharts version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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