R Observatory: Metrics for ggbeeswarm version 0.7.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggbeeswarm

0.7.3Package record

Categorical Scatter (Violin Point) Plots

19packages dependsuggested by 27

557.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Erik ClarkeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides two methods of plotting categorical scatter plots such that the arrangement of points within a category reflects the density of data at that region, and avoids over-plotting.

Install

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

install.packages("ggbeeswarm", 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("eclarke/ggbeeswarm")

Development version from eclarke/ggbeeswarm. 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-ggbeeswarm

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-ggbeeswarm

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-ggbeeswarm

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: 2.0 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 0.7.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 0.7.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

ggbeeswarm package usage examples PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

557.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #552 · ~1.5K/day · ~46.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39.7K30 days

124.2K90 days

557.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on13.8K r2u6 autocran107.2K conda_forge90 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

eclarke/ggbeeswarm ↗Account: eclarke

570Stars

32Forks

12Open issues

1Open PRs

9Releases

304Commits

12Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 304 commits · Last activity 2025-11-28 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 276
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-21 · 5562026-09-28 · 570

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/eclarke/ggbeeswarm on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dev Container

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggbeeswarm adds 19 packages (8 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, vipor 4.5 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0ggplot2

Imports (4)

beeswarm lifecycle vipor cli

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

gridExtra

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

19direct

10indirect

Imports 19

Suggested by 27

Show all 46 packagesHide all 46 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ggrastr scCustomize rbiom tidyplots metaviz dabestr ggquickeda interpretCI orchaRd InteractionPoweR CRMetrics esci AIDA spotoroo MLwrap ciu MetaEntropy WMFM sistmr

Suggests, most downloaded first

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Erik Clarke

Author, Maintainer since 0.5.0 (2016)

Charlotte Dawson

Author · added in 0.7.1

Scott Sherrill-Mix

Author

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.7.3Latest
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2025-11-29 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7.2
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2023-04-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.7.1
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2022-12-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.6.0
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2017-08-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.5.3
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2016-12-01 · diff ↗
0.5.2
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2016-11-30 · diff ↗

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.5.0
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2016-02-21
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-21
Total releases: 7 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggbeeswarm")

Format

Clarke, E., Dawson, C., & Sherrill-Mix, S. (2025). ggbeeswarm: Categorical Scatter (Violin Point) Plots (Version 0.7.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggbeeswarm

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

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 ggbeeswarm version 0.7.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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