R Observatory: Metrics for ggplate version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggplate

0.4.0Package record

Create Layout Plots of Biological Culture Plates and Microplates

0packages depend

9.1Kdownloads / year

98.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jan-Philipp QuastCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Enables users to create simple plots of biological culture plates as well as microplates. Both continuous and discrete values can be plotted onto the plate layout.

Changes in 0.4.0

The value argument of plate_plot() now accepts factors, which previously caused an error. The order of the factor levels determines the order of the legend. This makes it possible to control the legend order, which for character columns is still the order of appearance in the data.
Every level of a factor is assigned a colour, even if it is not present in the data. This means that plates plotted from the same data always use the same colour for the same level.
plate_plot() received the new border argument. It takes a column that contains categories, which are plotted as colours of the well borders. This makes it possible to highlight individual wells. The categories are shown in a second legend and wells with a missing value (NA) keep the default black border.
As part of the above addition, two more things were added to the package:
border_colour is a new argument that takes the colours used for the well borders. By default the new border_colours scheme is used.
border_colours is a new colour scheme containing four colours that mark the status of a well. The colours are not part of the protti_colours and viridis_colours schemes, which ensures that borders are visible on every fill colour.
Every example dataset received a Status, a Control or a Replicate column, which can be used with the new border argument. For most datasets only some of the wells have a category, the rest of the wells contain NA.
The legends of the value and the border argument now share the space next to the plot. The number of legend columns is based on the total number of keys of both legends and the legend_n_row argument now specifies the total number of rows of both legends.
The value column can now contain only missing values (NA), which makes it possible to show a plate that has colours only for the well borders. In this case no legend is shown for the value argument. This requires the remove_na argument to be set to FALSE, otherwise every well is removed and plate_plot() now returns an informative error.
The value column can now also be a logical column, which previously threw an error.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggplate", 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("jpquast/ggplate")

Development version from jpquast/ggplate. 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-ggplate

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-ggplate

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-ggplate

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMEYes · 1,623 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

9.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,990 · ~25/day · ~756/mo

Releases R versions

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98330 days

2.3K90 days

9.1K1 year

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Also on185 r2u9 autocran1.7K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

jpquast/ggplate ↗Account: jpquast

106Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

73Commits

3Commit identities

73 commits · Last activity 2026-09-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 33
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-14 · 1012026-07-07 · 106

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jpquast/ggplate on 2026-10-22.

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)

Issue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-01

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

Zenodo

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggplate adds 29 packages (15 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

dplyr ggplot2 scales purrr rlang stringr tidyrutilsfarver

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

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People & History

People (1)

Jan-Philipp Quast

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2023)

Releases (11)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-20
Total releases: 11 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 16 KB / 15 files
Download size: 5.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggplate")

Format

Quast, J. (2026). ggplate: Create Layout Plots of Biological Culture Plates and Microplates (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggplate

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggplate version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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