R Observatory: Metrics for ggdist version 3.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggdist

3.3.3Package record

Visualizations of Distributions and Uncertainty

30packages dependsuggested by 31

932.8Kdownloads / year

97.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Provides primitives for visualizing distributions using 'ggplot2' that are particularly tuned for visualizing uncertainty in either a frequentist or Bayesian mode. Both analytical distributions (such as frequentist confidence distributions or Bayesian priors) and distributions represented as samples (such as bootstrap distributions or Bayesian posterior samples) are easily visualized. Visualization primitives include but are not limited to: points with multiple uncertainty intervals, eye plots (Spiegelhalter D., 1999) https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/jorssa/v162y1999i1p45-58.html, density plots, gradient plots, dot plots (Wilkinson L., 1999) doi:10.1080/00031305.1999.10474474, quantile dot plots (Kay M., Kola T., Hullman J., Munson S., 2016) doi:10.1145/2858036.2858558, complementary cumulative distribution function barplots (Fernandes M., Walls L., Munson S., Hullman J., Kay M., 2018) doi:10.1145/3173574.3173718, and fit curves with multiple uncertainty ribbons.

Changes in 3.3.3

Major changes:

Require R > 4.0 due to several dependencies now requiring it.
To complement the subguides for geom_slab(), there are now subscales, which can be used to adjust the limits or the expand parameter of the thickness per-geometry sub-scales (in much the same way those parameters can be set on scale_thickness_shared()) (#219).
Default subscales and subguides can be set by assigning subscale_thickness, subguide_slab, subguide_dots, and subguide_spike in the global environment (#225).
Allow use of square shapes in geom_blur_dots().
More arguments to stat_slabinterval() now use waiver()s so that they can be set either in the call to the stat or in the call to the density estimator (#220).

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Bin edge openness can now be set via the right_closed and outermost_closed arguments to density_histogram() (#238).
New helper functions interval_widths() and pretty_widths() make it easier to create nicely-spaced sets of nested intervals.

Documentation:

Almost all parameter documentation (except some inherited from other packages) now includes an annotation listing valid data types for that parameter (#243).

Bug fixes:

Stats and geoms now pass down check.aes and check.param to layer() so that aesthetics can be used to carry data to later stages of the pipeline without spurious warnings (#248).
Ensure point_interval(<distribution>) supports tidy evaluation on the .point and .interval arguments (#221).
point_interval(<tibble>) always returns a tibble() (#224).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggdist", 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/ggdist")

Development version from mjskay/ggdist. 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-ggdist

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-ggdist

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-ggdist

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: 15.1 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 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.3.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 4 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.3.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 74 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 97%60 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition) · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 90%
Help pages citing references: 19%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

932.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #250 · ~2.6K/day · ~77.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

220.6K30 days

515.8K90 days

932.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on10.4K r2u9 autocran11.9K conda_forge221 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mjskay/ggdist ↗Account: mjskay

882Stars

32Forks

67Open issues

9Open PRs

17Releases

1,813Commits

8Commit identities

rr-packageggplot2visualizationuncertaintyuncertainty-visualization

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 1,813 commits · Last activity 2025-10-05 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.3.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 3.3.3 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 73%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 15
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-19 · 8622026-10-22 · 882

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mjskay/ggdist on 2026-10-22.

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 (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-11-06

pkgdown site last built 2025-10-05

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

34 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggdist adds 27 packages (12 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (14)

gridggplot2 scales rlang cli tibble vctrs withr glue gtable distributional numDeriv quadprog Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (20)

tidyselect dplyr fda posterior beeswarm rmarkdown knitr testthat vdiffr svglite fontquiver sysfonts showtext mvtnorm covr broom patchwork tidyr (>= 1.0.0)ragg pkgdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

30direct

151indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 29

Suggested by 31

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

distributional posterior bayestestR marginaleffects modelsummary see ggformula ggtime gratia fwb tweedieDistr scoringutils SCpubr coveffectsplot easyRasch2 isotracer MBNMAdose bsitar

and 13 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Matthew Kay

Author, Maintainer since 2.1.1 (2020)

Brenton M. Wiernik

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

Releases (15)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.3.3Latest
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2025-04-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
interval_widths, pretty_widths, subguide_dots, subguide_slab, subguide_spike, subscale_identity, subscale_thickness
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.3.2
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2024-03-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 15 exports
GeomBlurDots, blur_gaussian, blur_interval, breaks_quantiles, geom_blur_dots, partial_colour_ramp, ramp_colours, stat_mcse_dots, subguide_axis, subguide_count, subguide_inside, subguide_integer, subguide_none, subguide_outside, waiver
3.3.1
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2023-11-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
auto_partial
3.3.0
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2023-05-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
density_auto

added 22 exports
GeomSpike, StatSpike, align_boundary, align_center, align_none, bandwidth_SJ, bandwidth_bcv, bandwidth_dpi, bandwidth_nrd, bandwidth_nrd0, bandwidth_ucv, bounder_cdf, bounder_cooke, bounder_range, breaks_FD, breaks_Scott, breaks_Sturges, breaks_fixed, density_histogram, geom_spike, stat_spike, weighted_ecdf
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
3.2.1
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2023-01-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 19 exports
GeomSwarm, GeomWeave, Pr_, density_auto, density_bounded, density_unbounded, geom_swarm, geom_weave, p_, scale_side_mirrored, scale_slab_linewidth_continuous, scale_slab_linewidth_discrete, smooth_bar, smooth_bounded, smooth_discrete, smooth_none, smooth_unbounded, weighted_quantile, weighted_quantile_fun
3.2.0
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2022-07-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
guide_rampbar, scale_thickness_identity, scale_thickness_shared, thickness
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
3.1.1
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2022-02-27 · diff ↗
3.1.0
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2022-02-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
AbstractStatSlabinterval, ll, mean_ll, mean_ul, median_ll, median_ul, mode_ll, mode_ul, stat_ribbon, ul
3.0.1
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2021-11-30 · diff ↗
3.0.0
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2021-07-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
PositionDodgejust, bin_dots, facet_title_horizontal, find_dotplot_binwidth, position_dodgejust
2.4.1
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2021-06-10 · diff ↗

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.4.0
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2021-01-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
cut_cdf_qi, scale_color_ramp_continuous, scale_color_ramp_discrete, scale_colour_ramp_continuous, scale_colour_ramp_discrete, scale_fill_ramp_continuous, scale_fill_ramp_discrete
2.3.0
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2020-10-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
curve_interval
2.2.0
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2020-07-12 · diff ↗
2.1.1
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2020-06-14
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-14
Total releases: 15 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 113 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.7 MB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggdist version 3.3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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