R Observatory: Metrics for fanplot version 4.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fanplot

4.0.1Package record

Visualisation of Sequential Probability Distributions Using Fan Charts

2packages dependsuggested by 1

22.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Guy J. AbelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Visualise sequential distributions using a range of plotting styles. Sequential distribution data can be input as either simulations or values corresponding to percentiles over time. Plots are added to existing graphic devices using the fan function. Users can choose from four different styles, including fan chart type plots, where a set of coloured polygon, with shadings corresponding to the percentile values are layered to represent different uncertainty levels. Full details in R Journal article; Abel (2015) doi:10.32614/RJ-2015-002.

Changes in 4.0.1

updated suggests for demo file, as required for CRAN
update citation info, including URL of R Journal article

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fanplot", 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("guyabel/fanplot")

Development version from guyabel/fanplot. 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-fanplot

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-fanplot

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-fanplot

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: 1.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 4.0.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.0.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Description cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 63%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

22.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,531 · ~63/day · ~1.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3K30 days

6.2K90 days

22.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on199 r2u7 autocran191 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

guyabel/fanplot ↗Account: guyabel

7Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

67Commits

2Commit identities

rrstatsrstats-packagefanchartdatavizdata-visualizationuncertainty-visualisation

67 commits · Last activity 2026-01-26

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/guyabel/fanplot 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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-26 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-26

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fanplot adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

shiny RColorBrewer colorspace zoo

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

6indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

StMoMo MSGARCH

Suggests, most downloaded first

surveillance

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Guy J. Abel

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2012)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Guy J.

no longer listed · 3.4.2 to 4.0.1

Releases (16)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
4.0.1Latest
record
2026-01-23 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
4.0.0
record
2021-08-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
3.4.2
record
2019-12-18 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
3.4.1
record
2015-10-07 · diff ↗
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Show 15 earlier eventsHide 15 earlier events

3.4.0
record
2015-01-28 · diff ↗
3.3
record
2014-08-01 · diff ↗
3.2
record
2014-04-16 · diff ↗
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
3.1
record
2014-03-21 · diff ↗
3.0
record
2014-02-01 · diff ↗
2.3
record
2013-11-29 · diff ↗
2.2
record
2013-05-17 · diff ↗
2.1
record
2013-04-23 · diff ↗
1.3
record
2013-04-09 · diff ↗
R
R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
1.2
record
2013-02-07 · diff ↗
1.1
record
2012-08-02 · diff ↗
1.0
record
2012-07-17
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-07-17
Total releases: 16 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.3 MB / 5 files
Download size: 1.3 MB

Appears in task views

Time Series Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("fanplot")

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

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 fanplot version 4.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →