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Produce Charts Following UK Government Analysis Function Guidance

v0.5.1 · Feb 26, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

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.

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autoCRAN

9

Last 7 days

59

Last 30 days

3

All-time

autoCRAN-only: this name is served only by autoCRAN, so the count is exact.

CRAN Check Status

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
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r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
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r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 OK
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r-release-windows-x86_64 OK

Check History

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 9, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘accessibility.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘accessibility.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘colours.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘colours.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘cookbook
...[truncated]...
 'plotly'
--- failed re-building ‘cookbook.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘saving.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘saving.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘cookbook.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Code

Structure

Lines of code

3,601

Files

96

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 1,057 (29.4%)Tests 525 (14.6%)Docs 532 (14.8%)Vignettes 1,487 (41.3%)

API

Exported functions

8

Internal functions

2

Recent export changes

v0.4.0+8 mm_to_inch, save_govuk, scale_colour_continuous_af +5 more

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

2.31

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

100%

\dontrun example ratio

0%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.1.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

MIT + file LICENSE

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

3

First release

2024-11-06

Latest release

2026-02-26

Avg cadence

239 days

Cold removal rate

Dep drift

2

LOC over versions

v0.4.0: 2,500 LOCv0.4.1: 2,748 LOCv0.5.1: 3,601 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies ggplot2 scales cli rlang dplyr purrr afcharts

Version History

4 tracked
new 0.5.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.5.1 ← 0.4.1 diff Feb 25, 2026
updated 0.4.1 ← 0.4.0 diff Jan 12, 2025
new 0.4.0 Nov 5, 2024