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ggcharts

Shorten the Distance from Data Visualization Idea to Actual Plot

v0.2.1 · May 19, 2020 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

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'.

Downloads

CRAN

594

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8.7K

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Trend: +21.5% (30d vs prior 30d)

r2u CRAN

2

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30

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113

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Trend: -80% (30d vs prior 30d)

autoCRAN

4

Last 7 days

11

Last 30 days

1

All-time

autoCRAN-only: this name is served only by autoCRAN, so the count is exact.

conda-forge CRAN

84

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CRAN Check Status

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Check History

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 9, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

whether package can be installed

install log ‘’ does not exist
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Code

Structure

Lines of code

2,990

Files

69

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 1,514 (50.6%)Tests 118 (3.9%)Docs 1,014 (33.9%)Vignettes 344 (11.5%)

API

Exported functions

15

Internal functions

17

Recent export changes

v0.2.0+8 ggcharts_get_default_color, ggcharts_get_theme, ggcharts_set_theme +5 more
v0.1.0+7 bar_chart, column_chart, diverging_bar_chart +4 more

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

2.28

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

100%

\dontrun example ratio

0%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

14.3%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.5.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

MIT + file LICENSE

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

3

First release

2020-03-26

Latest release

2020-05-19

Avg cadence

27 days

Cold removal rate

Dep drift

2

LOC over versions

v0.1.0: 1,631 LOCv0.2.0: 2,989 LOCv0.2.1: 2,990 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Reverse Dependencies (1)

imports

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies ggplot2 colorspace dplyr lifecycle magrittr patchwork rlang bartcs ggcharts

Version History

4 tracked
new 0.2.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.2.1 ← 0.2.0 diff May 19, 2020
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.0 diff May 12, 2020
new 0.1.0 Mar 25, 2020