R Observatory: Metrics for ggforce version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggforce

0.5.0Package record

Accelerating 'ggplot2'

89packages dependsuggested by 51

1.3Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The aim of 'ggplot2' is to aid in visual data investigations. This focus has led to a lack of facilities for composing specialised plots. 'ggforce' aims to be a collection of mainly new stats and geoms that fills this gap. All additional functionality is aimed to come through the official extension system so using 'ggforce' should be a stable experience.

Changes in 0.5.0

Fixed a bug that would cause reordering of data in some geoms (#314)
The concaveman package is no longer a dependency for geom_mark_hull() (#308)
Setting both label and description to NA will now turn off label drawing for that mark completely while still drawing the mark
Fix a bug in geom_mark_rect() where the mark would not be shown in all panels (#307)
Fixed a bug in the geom_mark_*() geoms where having NA values in the filter aesthetic would lead to weird errors. NA is now treated as FALSE (#306)
shapeGrob() is now exported for use by other packages (#303)
Fix a bug in geom_autohistogram() that prevented it to be used with continuous data (#297)

Show all changes in 0.5.0Hide the rest of the changes in 0.5.0

facet_zoom() now throws a better error when used with coord_flip() (#143)
You can now use "inherit", "inherit_fill", and "inherit_col" for the styling of the label box and connector in the geom_mark_*() family of geoms (#240)
Prepare for upcoming changes in ggplot2

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggforce", 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("thomasp85/ggforce")

Development version from thomasp85/ggforce. 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-ggforce

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-ggforce

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-ggforce

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

Additional issues

rchk

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.0

READMEYes · 241 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 45 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%41 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 91%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 20%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #335 · ~3.6K/day · ~110.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

95.4K30 days

302.1K90 days

1.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on24.2K r2u115 autocran137.9K conda_forge659 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

thomasp85/ggforce ↗Account: thomasp85

958Stars

108Forks

68Open issues

8Open PRs

11Releases

366Commits

30Commit identities

visualizationrstatsggplot2ggplot-extension

366 commits · Last activity 2025-09-15 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.5.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 81%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 330
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 140

Stars over time

2025-10-06 · 9362026-10-10 · 958

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/thomasp85/ggforce 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)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-09-15

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggforce adds 24 packages (14 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.3.0ggplot2

Imports (16)

gridscalesMASStweenr gtable rlang polyclipstatsgrDevicestidyselect withrutilslifecycle cli vctrs systemfonts

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (6)

sessioninfo deldir latex2exp reshape2 units covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

89direct

116indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 87

Suggested by 51

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 41 more dependents and 51 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016), Author

RStudio

Copyright holder · added in 0.2.0

Releases (16)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.0Latest
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2025-06-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
shapeGrob
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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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2024-02-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-10-04 · diff ↗
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2022-09-29 · diff ↗
0.3.4
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2022-08-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
ScaleContinuousPositionUnit

added 3 exports
StatErr, label_tex, stat_err
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.3
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2021-03-05 · diff ↗
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2020-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.1
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2019-08-20 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2019-08-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 16 exports
FacetCol, FacetMatrix, FacetRow, GeomAutoarea, GeomAutorect, PositionAuto, PositionFloatstack, StatAutobin, StatAutodensity, facet_col, facet_matrix, facet_row, geom_autodensity, geom_autohistogram, geom_autopoint, position_auto

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.2
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2019-04-23 · diff ↗
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2019-03-12 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2019-03-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
GeomSina

added 64 exports
FacetStereo, GeomBsplineClosed0, GeomMarkCircle, GeomMarkEllipse, GeomMarkHull, GeomMarkRect, GeomParallelSetsAxes, GeomShape, PositionJitterNormal, StatDelaunaySegment, StatDelaunaySegment2, StatDelaunayTile, StatDelvorSummary, StatDiagonal, StatDiagonal0, StatDiagonal2, StatDiagonalWide, StatEllip, StatParallelSets, StatParallelSetsAxes, StatRegon, StatSpiro, StatVoronoiSegment, StatVoronoiTile, facet_stereo, gather_set_data, geom_bspline_closed, geom_bspline_closed0, geom_delaunay_segment, geom_delaunay_segment2 and 34 more
0.1.3
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2018-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
scale_type.units
0.1.2
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2018-05-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-11-28 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2016-11-22
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-22
Total releases: 16 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 2) in 0.2.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 885 KB

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Format

Pedersen, T. L., & RStudio. (2025). ggforce: Accelerating 'ggplot2' (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggforce

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggforce version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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