R Observatory: Metrics for easylabel version 0.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

easylabel

0.3.3Package record

Interactive Scatter Plot and Volcano Plot Labels

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Myles LewisCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Interactive labelling of scatter plots, volcano plots and Manhattan plots using a 'shiny' and 'plotly' interface. Users can hover over points to see where specific points are located and click points on/off to easily label them. Labels can be dragged around the plot to place them optimally. Plots can be exported directly to PDF for publication. For plots with large numbers of points, points can optionally be rasterized as a bitmap, while all other elements (axes, text, labels & lines) are preserved as vector objects. This can dramatically reduce file size for plots with millions of points such as Manhattan plots, and is ideal for publication.

Changes in 0.3.3

28/1/2025

Fixed problem with xlim and ylim (thanks to RC2754).
Fixed save state in easyVolcano etc.
Added new function add_labels() which allows quick addition of labels to a

plotly 2d or 3d scatter plot.

New convenience function arial for converting font in plotly plots to Arial.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("easylabel", 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("myles-lewis/easylabel")

Development version from myles-lewis/easylabel. 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-easylabel

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-easylabel

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-easylabel

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: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-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 0.3.3

READMEYes · 358 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 30%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

easylabel

How these are measured

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,146 · ~11/day · ~321/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41230 days

1K90 days

3.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on111 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

myles-lewis/easylabel ↗Account: myles-lewis

9Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

7Releases

351Commits

3Commit identities

351 commits · Last activity 2025-03-22 · +12.5% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.4, ahead of CRAN 0.3.3 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-09-13 · 72026-09-24 · 9

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/myles-lewis/easylabel on 2026-10-18.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing easylabel adds 73 packages (39 with compiled code, 72 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (10)

DT ggplot2 gtools memoise plotly RColorBrewer rlang shiny shinycssloaders shinybusy

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

AnnotationDbi knitr magick org.Hs.eg.db qvalue rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

volcano3D

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Myles Lewis

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Katriona Goldmann

Author

Cankut Cubuk

Contributor

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.3Latest
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2025-02-06 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
add_labels, arial
0.3.2
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2025-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
loadlabel
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.8
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2024-03-08 · diff ↗
0.2.7
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2023-10-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
gg_qqplot, qqplot, qqplot2
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.4
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2021-11-15 · diff ↗
0.2.2
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2021-10-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
easyManhattan
0.1.0
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2021-10-05
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-10-05
Total releases: 7 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.2 KB / 2 files
Download size: 4.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("easylabel")

Format

Lewis, M., Cubuk, C., & Goldmann, K. (2025). easylabel: Interactive Scatter Plot and Volcano Plot Labels (Version 0.3.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.easylabel

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for easylabel version 0.3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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