R Observatory: Metrics for afcharts version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

afcharts

0.5.1Package record

Produce Charts Following UK Government Analysis Function Guidance

0packages depend

5.3Kdownloads / year

94.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Olivia Box PowerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Government Analysis Function

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.

Changes in 0.5.1

Updated the sequential colour palette to add two new shades (darkest-blue and lightest-blue). This means that the sequential palette can now be used to represent five categories, such as deprivation quintiles.
Renamed na_colour argument of scale_colour_continuous_af and scale_fill_continuous_af to na.value. This was necessary to enable use_afcharts to work with ggplot2 v4.0.1. Added na.value argument to scale_colour_discrete_af and scale_fill_discrete_af.
use_afcharts gains a reset argument to turn off analysis function styling of charts.
theme_af now uses theme options set by earlier calls of use_afcharts by default. #51
Set the main colour palettes to categorical. The Scale_*_discrete_af functions now use the 6 colour cateogrical palette by default, rather than the 4 colour.
Added af_dark_blue, af_orange and af_grey to give easier access to the hex codes of these colours.
Added arguments axis_text and axis_title to function theme_af to set

whether to show axis titles and labels.

Added argument legend_title to function theme_af to set whether to show

legend titles.

The legend argument of theme_af now accepts a legend justification e.g. 'top-right', 'left-centre' #47

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 30.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.1

READMEYes · 411 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,683 · ~14/day · ~440/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

57030 days

1.5K90 days

5.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on129 r2u27 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

best-practice-and-impact/afcharts ↗Organization: best-practice-and-impact

30Stars

5Forks

9Open issues

3Open PRs

3Releases

403Commits

13Commit identities

403 commits · Last activity 2026-05-05 · +7.1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 88%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 36
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 7

Stars over time

2025-10-02 · 252026-10-16 · 30

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

15 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 2026-10-21.

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 (3)

Code of conductContributing guideSupport guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-05 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-05

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing afcharts adds 26 packages (13 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

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

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Olivia Box Power

Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2024), Contributor

Alice Hannah

Author

Crown Copyright

Copyright holder

Government Analysis Function

Funder

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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

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

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

Cite the R Observatory

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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 v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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