R Observatory: Metrics for ggarrow version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggarrow

0.2.0Package record

Arrows for 'ggplot2'

2packages dependsuggested by 2

35.1Kdownloads / year

82.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Teun van den BrandCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A 'ggplot2' extension that adds specialised arrow geometry layers. It offers more arrow options than the standard 'grid' arrows that are built-in many line-based geom layers.

Changes in 0.2.0

This is a minor release introducing a few new features.

The grob_arrow(offset) argument can draw the arrows at some distance from the original path. Note that this isn't exposed in layers (#8).
geom_arrow(sep) uses the grob_arrow(offset) to display co-located arrows in a dodged fashion (#8).
grob_arrow(distort) is an experimental way to draw patterned lines. It is exposed in layers via the geom_arrow(distort) parameter too (#6).
New asymmetric arrow ornaments (#8):
arrow_head_halfline()
arrow_head_halfwing()
Fixed bug where numeric resect_fins aesthetic in geom_arrow_segment() might have flunked a type check (#15).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggarrow", 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("teunbrand/ggarrow")

Development version from teunbrand/ggarrow. 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-ggarrow

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-ggarrow

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-ggarrow

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: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 501 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 18 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%16 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 75%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

35.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,987 · ~96/day · ~2.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.2K30 days

9.3K90 days

35.1K1 year

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Also on339 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

teunbrand/ggarrow ↗Account: teunbrand

59Stars

2Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

3Releases

158Commits

1Commit identities

ggplot-extensionggplot2ggplot2-geomrstats

158 commits · Last activity 2026-09-03 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 60
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 562026-09-07 · 59

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/teunbrand/ggarrow on 2026-10-18.

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 2026-09-03 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-03

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggarrow adds 18 packages (8 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

ggplot2

Imports (9)

cligridlifecycle polyclip rlang S7 scalesutilsvctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr knitr rmarkdown testthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

2indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ggbiplot ggdiagram

Suggests, most downloaded first

mvgam arrowheadr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Teun van den Brand

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2024)

Releases (3)

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0.2.0Latest
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2026-09-03 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
arrow_head_halfline, arrow_head_halfwing, distort_sawtooth, distort_sinewave, distort_squarewave
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.1
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2025-09-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
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2024-06-05
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-05
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 782 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggarrow")

Format

van den Brand, T. (2026). ggarrow: Arrows for 'ggplot2' (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggarrow

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 ggarrow version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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