R Observatory: Metrics for ggguides version 1.1.10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggguides

1.1.10Package record

Simplified Legend and Guide Alignment for 'ggplot2'

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

91.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gilles CollingCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides one-liner functions for common legend and guide operations in 'ggplot2'. Simplifies legend positioning, styling, wrapping, and collection across multi-panel plots created with 'patchwork' or 'cowplot'.

Changes in 1.1.10

Bug Fixes

legend_style(by = <aes>, justification = ...) collided when two or more legends shared the same edge. The 1.1.9 fix routed each call to a single global theme(legend.justification.<side> = ...), so the second call overwrote the first — legend_style(by = "colour", justification = "left") + legend_style(by = "fill", justification = "right") on the top edge ended up with both legends pinned to the right. Per-legend justification now also stashes the requested rail position on the plot and rewrites the guide-box-<side> internal gtable at render time so each legend sits at its own fraction of the rail. The render-time path also reorders the guides so the gtable cell order matches the requested rail order. The global theme write is kept as a fallback for the single-legend case. (reported by Youtao)

Internal

The render-time gtable post-processor checks ggplot2's guide-box layout shape (column count and pad-cell unit type) and falls back to the previous behavior with a one-shot warning if it doesn't match what ggguides was tested against (currently ggplot2 4.0.3) — so a future ggplot2 internal change degrades gracefully instead of producing wrong output.
If a guide already has an explicit guide_legend(order = N) set, per-legend justification reordering on that side is skipped and a warning is emitted, so the user-supplied order is never silently overwritten.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggguides", 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("gcol33/ggguides")

Development version from gcol33/ggguides. 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-ggguides

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-ggguides

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-ggguides

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: 6.0 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
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.1.10

READMEYes · 720 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.10Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 34 (9 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%25 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

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Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,306 · ~8/day · ~234/mo

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28330 days

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2.8K1 year

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Repository

gcol33/ggguides ↗Account: gcol33

6Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

129Commits

2Commit identities

crandata-visualizationdatavizggplot2ggplot2-extensionlegendpatchworkr

129 commits · Last activity 2026-10-23 · +20% stars, 30d

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Stars over time

2026-01-11 · 12026-10-13 · 6

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PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/gcol33/ggguides on 2026-10-25.

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 2026-10-23

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Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

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Claude Codefirst seen 2025-12-15
Named in .Rbuildignore: CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: CLAUDE.md
Commits: at least 104 crediting it in the message

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Claude Opus 4.566 commits · Dec 2025 to Jan 2026
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Claude Fable 52 commits · Jun 2026

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggguides adds 18 packages (7 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

ggplot2gridgridExtra gtable rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

patchwork testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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People & History

People (1)

Gilles Colling

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.4 (2026)

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Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-09
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 581 KB

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Format

Colling, G. (2026). ggguides: Simplified Legend and Guide Alignment for 'ggplot2' (Version 1.1.10) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggguides

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggguides version 1.1.10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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