R Observatory: Metrics for ggblend version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggblend

0.1.2Package record

Blending and Compositing Algebra for 'ggplot2'

0packages depend

4.9Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew KayCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Algebra of operations for blending, copying, adjusting, and compositing layers in 'ggplot2'. Supports copying and adjusting the aesthetics or parameters of an existing layer, partitioning a layer into multiple pieces for re-composition, applying affine transformations to layers, and combining layers (or partitions of layers) using blend modes (including commutative blend modes, like multiply and darken). Blend mode support is particularly useful for creating plots with overlapping groups where the layer drawing order does not change the output; see Kindlmann and Scheidegger (2014) doi:10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346325.

Changes in 0.1.2

Minor fixes for {ggplot2} 4.0.0.
Use ggplot2::check_device() for checking graphics device capabilities (#20).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggblend", 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("mjskay/ggblend")

Development version from mjskay/ggblend. 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-ggblend

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-ggblend

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-ggblend

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: 2.1 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 0.1.2

READMEYes · 1,562 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 15%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,861 · ~13/day · ~409/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49030 days

1.1K90 days

4.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on126 r2u8 autocran524 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

mjskay/ggblend ↗Account: mjskay

208Stars

3Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

84Commits

2Commit identities

84 commits · Last activity 2025-10-04 · +1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 57

Stars over time

2025-08-30 · 1922026-10-09 · 208

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mjskay/ggblend 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

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-05 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-10-05

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggblend adds 17 packages (7 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (4)

methodsgridggplot2 rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

covr testthat fontquiver showtext sysfonts ggnewscale scales

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Matthew Kay

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-22
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Download size: 4.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggblend")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 ggblend version 0.1.2 [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.

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