R Observatory: Metrics for gggenes version 0.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gggenes

0.7.0Package record

Draw Gene Arrow Maps in 'ggplot2'

3packages dependsuggested by 2

91.2Kdownloads / year

99.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David WilkinsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A 'ggplot2' extension for drawing gene arrow maps.

Changes in 0.7.0

New features

geom_subgene_arrow() and geom_subgene_label() now support polar coordinates.

Minor improvements and fixes

gggenes now validates layer input and reports problems with clearer, more consistent error messages (#91, #92).
gggenes now transforms data coordinates once per panel rather than once per glyph, speeding up the rendering of layers with many glyphs (#113).
The rendering pipeline is refactored to share more logic across geoms (#93, #109).
Grid drawing now uses NPC rather than native coordinates internally (#94).
The package documentation is updated throughout, and the README now presents polar-coordinate drawing with coord_polar() as a supported feature rather than as experimental (#115, #116, #117, #122).

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The declared dependency floors are now honest: ggplot2 (>= 3.4.0) for the linewidth aesthetic, rlang (>= 1.0.0) for rlang::caller_arg(), and ggfittext (>= 0.9.0) for polar-coordinate text fitting (#107).
geom_feature() and geom_terminator() now document that their linewidth is expressed in points rather than millimetres, unlike geom_gene_arrow() and the ggplot2 convention; this inconsistency will be reconciled when these geoms are superseded in gggenes 1.0.0 (#121).
geom_feature_label() now draws when the forward aesthetic is not mapped (#98).
geom_feature_label() now sizes the label box of a forward = TRUE feature to the full panel in polar coordinates, spanning to the theta edge at 2 * pi rather than to 1 radian (#112).
geom_feature_label() and geom_terminator_label() now draw on the opposite side of the molecule with a negative feature_height or terminator_height, and their height-parameter documentation is clarified (#90, #99).
geom_gene_arrow(), geom_subgene_arrow(), geom_feature(), and geom_terminator() now handle the deprecated size aesthetic consistently, each emitting a single deprecation warning (#102).
geom_gene_arrow() and geom_subgene_arrow() legend keys now apply alpha to the outline colour as well as the fill, matching the drawn geoms (#101).
geom_gene_label() and geom_subgene_label() register the align parameter explicitly (#104).
geom_subgene_label() now draws in polar coordinates with only its required aesthetics mapped, without also needing xmin/xmax (#106).
Polar segmentation now keeps the endpoint of a very short edge, so a glyph edge shorter than one segment is drawn rather than collapsing to a single point (#114).
make_alignment_dummies() now gives a more informative error when on is absent from the mapped id column (#119).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gggenes", 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("wilkox/gggenes")

Development version from wilkox/gggenes. 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-gggenes

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-gggenes

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-gggenes

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: 4.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 0.7.0

READMEYes · 653 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 36%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to 'gggenes' HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

91.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,392 · ~250/day · ~7.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

6.4K30 days

19.6K90 days

91.2K1 year

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Also on779 r2u7 autocran5.4K conda_forge63 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

wilkox/gggenes ↗Account: wilkox

603Stars

51Forks

12Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

203Commits

3Commit identities

rggplot2genetics

203 commits · Last activity 2026-07-05 · +0.5% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.7.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.7.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 9

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 5582026-10-10 · 603

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/wilkox/gggenes 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-05 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-05

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (2)

Lint workflowAir

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Git structural (1)

blame-ignore revs

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2025-05-10
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Commits: at least 33 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.829 commits · Jul 2026
Claude Opus 4.51 commit · Jan 2026

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gggenes adds 32 packages (17 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (5)

cli ggfittext ggplot2gridrlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

1indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

shapviz bartXViz gclink

Suggests, most downloaded first

funcml pctax

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

David Wilkins

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2017)

Zachary Kurtz

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Releases (10)

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0.7.0Latest
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2026-07-05 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.0
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2025-12-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
geom_terminator, geom_terminator_label
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.1
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2023-09-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.0
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2023-03-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
geom_feature, geom_feature_label, theme_genes_flipped
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.1
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2020-12-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.0
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2019-06-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
geom_subgene_arrow, geom_subgene_label
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.2
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2018-11-07 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2018-06-16 · diff ↗

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0.3.0
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2018-05-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
geom_gene_label
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
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2017-08-24
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-24
Total releases: 10 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Bundled data: 6.2 KB / 9 files
Download size: 1.7 MB

Appears in task views

Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Transcriptomics, and Other Omics

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Format

Wilkins, D., & Kurtz, Z. (2026). gggenes: Draw Gene Arrow Maps in 'ggplot2' (Version 0.7.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gggenes

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gggenes version 0.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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