R Observatory: Metrics for ggdensity version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggdensity

1.0.1Package record

Interpretable Bivariate Density Visualization with 'ggplot2'

2packages dependsuggested by 4

12.9Kdownloads / year

96.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by James OttoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The 'ggplot2' package provides simple functions for visualizing contours of 2-d kernel density estimates. 'ggdensity' implements several additional density estimators as well as more interpretable visualizations based on highest density regions instead of the traditional height of the estimated density surface.

Changes in 1.0.1

Fixes

Package startup message no longer effects the sessions RNG (Reported by @TimTaylor #34)
Fixed ordering of probabilities in the plot legend to be independent of order specified in probs argument (Reported by @z3tt #32)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggdensity", 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("jamesotto852/ggdensity")

Development version from jamesotto852/ggdensity. 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-ggdensity

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-ggdensity

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-ggdensity

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: 8.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 1.0.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 17
Examples that run: 94%15 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 84%
Return-value docs: 13%
Help pages citing references: 29%

Vignettes (1)

The method argument HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

12.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,560 · ~35/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

98130 days

2.9K90 days

12.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on343 r2u6 autocran1.3K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

jamesotto852/ggdensity ↗Account: jamesotto852

234Stars

14Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

249Commits

3Commit identities

249 commits · Last activity 2026-02-25 · +0.4% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 71
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-02 · 2302026-09-23 · 234

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jamesotto852/ggdensity 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 2026-02-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-02-25, before release 1.0.1 (2026-02-26)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

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 ggdensity adds 22 packages (10 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

ggplot2

Imports (6)

isoband vctrs tibbleMASSstatsscales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

vdiffr testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

TransProR densityarea

Suggests, most downloaded first

rbiom IOBR ggvfields tidynorm

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

James Otto

David Kahle

Author

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1Latest
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2026-02-26 · 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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.0
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2023-02-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 14 exports
GeomHdrRugFun, StatHdrRugFun, geom_hdr_rug_fun, get_hdr, get_hdr_1d, method_freqpoly, method_freqpoly_1d, method_histogram, method_histogram_1d, method_kde, method_kde_1d, method_mvnorm, method_norm_1d, stat_hdr_rug_fun
0.1.1
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2022-10-24 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2022-07-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
GeomHdrRug, StatHdrPoints, StatHdrPointsFun, StatHdrRug, geom_hdr_points, geom_hdr_points_fun, geom_hdr_rug, stat_hdr_points, stat_hdr_points_fun, stat_hdr_rug
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.1
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2022-02-15
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-15
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("ggdensity")

Format

Otto, J., & Kahle, D. (2026). ggdensity: Interpretable Bivariate Density Visualization with 'ggplot2' (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggdensity

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggdensity version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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