R Observatory: Metrics for ggcharts version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggcharts

0.2.1Package record

Shorten the Distance from Data Visualization Idea to Actual Plot

1packages depend

6.7Kdownloads / year

37.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas NeitmannCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Streamline the creation of common charts by taking care of a lot of data preprocessing and plot customization for the user. Provides a high-level interface to create plots using 'ggplot2'.

Changes in 0.2.1

The themes only set the plot.title.position element if a version of {ggplot2} >= 3.3.0 is installed. This fixes #75.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggcharts", 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("thomas-neitmann/ggcharts")

Development version from thomas-neitmann/ggcharts. 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-ggcharts

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-ggcharts

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-ggcharts

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: 3.3 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 0.2.1

READMEYes · 241 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

customize HTML
highlight HTML
themes HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,910 · ~18/day · ~557/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

46830 days

1.4K90 days

6.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on124 r2u6 autocran1.2K conda_forge36 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

thomas-neitmann/ggcharts ↗Account: thomas-neitmann

294Stars

34Forks

18Open issues

1Open PRs

3Releases

344Commits

5Commit identities

rdata-visualizationggplot2plots

344 commits · Last activity 2021-10-04 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
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

2025-05-15 · 2902026-10-02 · 294

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/thomas-neitmann/ggcharts on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2020-05-28

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggcharts adds 27 packages (13 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, patchwork 3.2 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0ggplot2

Imports (6)

colorspace dplyr lifecycle magrittr patchwork rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

gapminder knitr lintr rmarkdown scales spelling tibble tidyr testthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

bartcs

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Thomas Neitmann

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

David Robinson

Contributor, Copyright holder

Julia Silge

Contributor, Copyright holder

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.1Latest
record
2020-05-20 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.0
record
2020-05-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
ggcharts_get_default_color, ggcharts_get_theme, ggcharts_set_theme, highlight_spec, theme_ggcharts, theme_hermit, theme_ng, theme_nightblue
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.0
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2020-03-26
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-26
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 3.1 KB / 3 files
Download size: 214 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggcharts")

Format

Neitmann, T., Robinson, D., & Silge, J. (2020). ggcharts: Shorten the Distance from Data Visualization Idea to Actual Plot (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggcharts

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 ggcharts version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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