ggpattern

'ggplot2' Pattern Geoms

v1.3.1 · Mar 6, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Provides 'ggplot2' geoms filled with various patterns. Includes a patterned version of every 'ggplot2' geom that has a region that can be filled with a pattern. Provides a suite of 'ggplot2' aesthetics and scales for controlling pattern appearances. Supports over a dozen builtin patterns (every pattern implemented by 'gridpattern') as well as allowing custom user-defined patterns.

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang	OK	178.3s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc	OK	117.7s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang	OK	336.3s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc	OK	349.6s
r-devel-windows-x86_64	OK	171s
r-oldrel-macos-arm64	OK	48s
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64	OK	180s
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64	OK	233s
r-patched-linux-x86_64	OK	165.7s
r-release-linux-x86_64	OK
r-release-macos-arm64	OK	44s
r-release-macos-x86_64	OK	197s
r-release-windows-x86_64	OK	173s

Check History

OK 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 1 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026

FAILURE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Trevor L. Davis <trevor.l.davis@gmail.com>’

Reading Rd files failed with message:
  cannot open the connection

ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 7, 2026

ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘developing-patterns.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘developing-patterns.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘patterns-noise.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Warning in dev.off() : Killing locked device
--- finished re-building ‘patterns-noise.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘patterns-points.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘patterns-points.Rmd’

Error in file(con, "w") : cannot open the connection
Calls: <Anonymous> -> R_runR
Execution halted

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 12, 2026

ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 5, 2026

ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'developing-patterns.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'developing-patterns.Rmd'

--- re-building 'patterns-noise.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'patterns-noise.Rmd'

--- r
...[truncated]...
.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- re-building 'patterns-stripes.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'patterns-stripes.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  'patterns-points.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 3, 2026

ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 24, 2026

ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'developing-patterns.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'developing-patterns.Rmd'

--- re-building 'patterns-noise.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'patterns-noise.Rmd'

--- r
...[truncated]...
.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- re-building 'patterns-stripes.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'patterns-stripes.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  'patterns-points.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 20, 2026

ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 13, 2026

ERROR r-release-windows-x86_64

examples

Running examples in 'ggpattern-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: scale_pattern_manual
> ### Title: Create your own discrete scale
> ### Aliases: scale_pattern_manual scale_pattern_type_manual
> ###   scale_pattern_subtype_m
...[truncated]...
w(18) +
+        theme(legend.key.size = unit(2, 'cm')) +
+        labs(
+          title    = 'ggpattern::geom_density_pattern()',
+          subtitle = 'pattern = \'polygon_tiling\''
+        )
+     plot(gg)
+   }
Loading required package: ggplot2

OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 9, 2026

ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 7, 2026

ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

examples

Running examples in 'ggpattern-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: scale_pattern_manual
> ### Title: Create your own discrete scale
> ### Aliases: scale_pattern_manual scale_pattern_type_manual
> ###   scale_pattern_subtype_m
...[truncated]...
w(18) +
+        theme(legend.key.size = unit(2, 'cm')) +
+        labs(
+          title    = 'ggpattern::geom_density_pattern()',
+          subtitle = 'pattern = \'polygon_tiling\''
+        )
+     plot(gg)
+   }
Loading required package: ggplot2

OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 28, 2026

ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 24, 2026

ERROR r-release-windows-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'developing-patterns.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'developing-patterns.Rmd'

--- re-building 'patterns-noise.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'patterns-noise.Rmd'

--- r
...[truncated]...
.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- re-building 'patterns-stripes.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'patterns-stripes.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  'patterns-points.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Version History

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new 1.3.1 Mar 10, 2026

updated 1.3.1 ← 1.2.1 diff Mar 6, 2026

updated 1.2.1 ← 1.1.4 diff Aug 26, 2025

updated 1.1.4 ← 1.1.3 diff Jan 28, 2025

updated 1.1.3 ← 1.1.1 diff Dec 12, 2024

updated 1.1.1 ← 1.0.1 diff Jun 3, 2024

updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0.0 diff Nov 9, 2022

updated 1.0.0 ← 0.4.2 diff Aug 29, 2022

updated 0.4.2 ← 0.4.1 diff Feb 22, 2022

new 0.4.1 Feb 21, 2022