R Observatory: Metrics for gghinton version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gghinton

0.1.0Package record

Hinton Diagrams for 'ggplot2'

0packages depend

1.3Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin FosterCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a 'ggplot2' extension for drawing Hinton diagrams, a visualisation technique for numerical matrices in which the area of each square is proportional to the magnitude of the corresponding entry. For signed data, white squares indicate positive values and black squares indicate negative values on a grey background. Hinton diagrams are especially useful for visualising PCA weight matrices, correlation matrices, and transition matrices.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial release.
geom_hinton() and stat_hinton() for drawing Hinton diagrams in ggplot2.
scale_fill_hinton() for the conventional signed-data colour scheme.
theme_hinton() for a clean, grid-free panel theme.
matrix_to_hinton() and as_hinton_df() for converting matrices to tidy data frames.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gghinton", 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("robin-foster-rf/gghinton")

Development version from robin-foster-rf/gghinton. 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-gghinton

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-gghinton

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-gghinton

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: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-11
OK4 OK2026-04-02

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 370 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

Getting Started with gghinton HTML
Hinton Diagrams in Practice: A Gallery HTML
MacKay's ITILA Examples HTML
Why Hinton Diagrams? HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,925 · ~3/day · ~106/mo

Releases R versions

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20530 days

61190 days

1.3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

robin-foster-rf/gghinton ↗Account: robin-foster-rf

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

7Commits

1Commit identities

7 commits · Last activity 2026-04-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-04-01 · 12026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/robin-foster-rf/gghinton on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gghinton adds 17 packages (7 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (3)

cli ggplot2 rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

knitrMatrixpatchworkgridscales rmarkdown testthat tibble vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Robin Foster

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2026-04-01 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-01
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.2 KB / 1 file
Download size: 420 KB

Cite

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citation("gghinton")

Format

Foster, R. (2026). gghinton: Hinton Diagrams for 'ggplot2' (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gghinton

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gghinton version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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