R Observatory: Metrics for aplot version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

aplot

0.3.2Package record

Decorate a 'ggplot' with Associated Information

5packages dependsuggested by 6

795Kdownloads / year

72.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Guangchuang YuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Supports data-driven composition of a main plot with associated subplots that need precise axis alignment. Unlike general layout-focused tools such as 'cowplot' and 'patchwork', it enables related subplots to be integrated on the top, bottom, left, or right sides of a main plot with matched axes, so that the combined panels can be interpreted as a coherent whole. This design was inspired by the 'Method 2' described in 'ggtree' (G Yu (2018) doi:10.1093/molbev/msy194).

Install

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

install.packages("aplot", 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("YuLab-SMU/aplot")

Development version from YuLab-SMU/aplot. 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-aplot

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-aplot

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-aplot

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: 4.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
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 0.3.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.3.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 13 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 18%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 82%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

795K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #380 · ~2.2K/day · ~66.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

82.7K30 days

237.2K90 days

795K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on13.5K r2u77 autocran122.1K conda_forge369 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

yulab-smu/aplot ↗Organization: YuLab-SMU

131Stars

17Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

169Commits

6Commit identities

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

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-30 · 1222026-08-13 · 131

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/yulab-smu/aplot 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 (3)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-04 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing aplot adds 33 packages (15 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, patchwork 3.2 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

ggfun gtable ggplot2 ggplotify patchwork magrittrmethodsutilsyulab.utils pillar

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

cowplot ggtree testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

5indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 6

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ggVennDiagram ggbreak ggpicrust2 interpretCI aplotExtra

Suggests, most downloaded first

ggplotify ggtangle pcutils pctax plotbb DPI

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Guangchuang Yu

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.3 (2020)

Thomas Hackl

Contributor · added in 0.1.7

Shuangbin Xu

Contributor · added in 0.1.7

Releases (29)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.3.2Latest
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2026-09-22 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2026-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
set_guide_area, set_guide_layout
0.3.0
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2026-06-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
set_panel_spacing
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.9
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2025-09-12 · diff ↗
0.2.8
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2025-07-02 · diff ↗
0.2.7
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2025-06-21 · diff ↗
0.2.6
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2025-06-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.5
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2025-02-27 · diff ↗
0.2.4
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2024-12-17 · diff ↗
0.2.3
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2024-06-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
xlab2, ylab2
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.2
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2023-10-06 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2023-09-15 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2023-08-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
gglistGrob

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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.10
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2023-03-08 · diff ↗
0.1.9
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2022-11-24 · diff ↗
0.1.8
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2022-10-09 · diff ↗
0.1.7
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2022-09-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
as.patchwork
0.1.6
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2022-06-03 · diff ↗
0.1.5
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2022-06-01 · diff ↗
0.1.4
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2022-05-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
gglist, ggrange
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.3
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2022-04-01 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2022-01-10 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2021-09-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
is.ggtree
0.1.0
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2021-09-03 · diff ↗
0.0.7
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2021-09-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.0.6
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2020-09-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
is.ggtree
0.0.5
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2020-07-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.0.4
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2020-04-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
plot_list, xrange, yrange
0.0.3
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2020-03-30
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-30
Total releases: 29 / 6 yrs
License: Artistic-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 68 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("aplot")

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

It points to 10.1016/j.xinn.2025.100958.

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 aplot version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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