R Observatory: Metrics for dotwhisker version 0.8.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dotwhisker needs insight (through marginaleffects), which CRAN will archive unless its check problems are fixed by Nov 14.

dotwhisker

0.8.6Package record

Dot-and-Whisker Plots of Regression Results

1packages dependsuggested by 2

64.4Kdownloads / year

19.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yue HuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Create quick and easy dot-and-whisker plots of regression results. It takes as input either (1) a coefficient table in standard form or (2) one (or a list of) fitted model objects (of any type that has methods implemented in the 'parameters' package). It returns 'ggplot' objects that can be further customized using tools from the 'ggplot2' package. The package also includes helper functions for tasks such as rescaling coefficients or relabeling predictor variables. See more methodological discussion of the visualization and data management methods used in this package in Kastellec and Leoni (2007) doi:10.1017/S1537592707072209 and Gelman (2008) doi:10.1002/sim.3107.

Changes in 0.8.6

small_multiple() now lets users customise the order of models (along the x-axis) and submodels (mapped to colour) via the model_order and submodel_order arguments, matching the behaviour of dwplot() (Issue #108). Added tests covering this behaviour.
Fixed the documented defaults for small_multiple()'s dodge_size (.4) and by_2sd (FALSE) arguments, and removed dead point-positioning code.
Replaced the now-unmaintained ggstance dependency with native ggplot2 horizontal geoms (geom_linerange(orientation = "y") + position_dodge()). This removes the size-aesthetic deprecation warning in dwplot() (Issue #120) without changing any plot output.
Replaced the deprecated aes_string() (in add_brackets()) and is.ggplot() (in relabel_predictors()) calls to be compatible with ggplot2 4.0.

Show all changes in 0.8.6Hide the rest of the changes in 0.8.6

Internal cleanup: de-duplicated dw_tidy() and the layer-building code in dwplot(), removed a fragile join and dead code in add_brackets(), and dropped unused/no-op code. No user-facing behavior changes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("dotwhisker", 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("fsolt/dotwhisker")

Development version from fsolt/dotwhisker. 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-dotwhisker

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-dotwhisker

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-dotwhisker

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: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 0.8.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.8.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 43%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

64.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,496 · ~176/day · ~5.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.7K30 days

16.7K90 days

64.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on378 r2u4 autocran2.1K conda_forge64 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

fsolt/dotwhisker ↗Account: fsolt

59Stars

8Forks

7Open issues

2Open PRs

18Releases

545Commits

7Commit identities

rstatsr-packagegraphicsplotregression-models

545 commits · Last activity 2026-06-24 · Default branch at 0.8.9999, ahead of CRAN 0.8.6 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 110
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 92026-08-24 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-24

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-06-23
Commits: some crediting it in the message, count not recorded

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dotwhisker adds 40 packages (17 with compiled code, 44 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.2.0ggplot2

Imports (12)

gridgtable gridExtrastatsparameters performance patchwork dplyr stringr rlang purrr marginaleffects

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

ordinal tibble knitr rmarkdown broom testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

insight through marginaleffectsfix by Nov 14

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

DAGassist

Suggests, most downloaded first

glmmTMB broom.mixed

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Yue Hu

Author, Maintainer since 0.6.0 (2021)

Frederick Solt

Author

Ben Bolker

Contributor · added in 0.2.1

Os Keyes

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Thomas Leeper

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Stefan Müller

Contributor · added in 0.2.5

Chris Wallace

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Christopher Warshaw

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Previously maintained by Frederick Solt (0.4.1 to 0.5.0) and Yue Hu (0.1.0.1 to 0.4.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Oliver Keyes

no longer listed · 0.2.1 to 0.5.0

Releases (25)

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0.8.6Latest
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-09-14
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-28
Total releases: 25 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 255 KB

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Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R

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citation("dotwhisker")

Format

Hu, Y., Bolker, B., Keyes, O., Leeper, T., Müller, S., Solt, F., Wallace, C., & Warshaw, C. (2026). dotwhisker: Dot-and-Whisker Plots of Regression Results (Version 0.8.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dotwhisker

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dotwhisker version 0.8.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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