R Observatory: Metrics for ggplot2 version 4.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggplot2

4.0.3

Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics

6,844packages depend

27.4Mdownloads / year

81.1%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenFirst published 2007-06-0171 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A system for 'declaratively' creating graphics, based on "The Grammar of Graphics". You provide the data, tell 'ggplot2' how to map variables to aesthetics, what graphical primitives to use, and it takes care of the details.

Install

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

install.packages("ggplot2", 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("tidyverse/ggplot2")

Development version from tidyverse/ggplot2. 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-ggplot2

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-ggplot2

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-ggplot2

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 18.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.06

81.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

12

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-11
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-30
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-07
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 513 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 94%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 21%
References docs: 2%

Downloads

27.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2 · ~75K/day · ~2.3M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2M30 days

7.4M90 days

27.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on208.4K r2u103 autocran1.5M conda_forge1.6K bioconda5.6K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ tidyverse/ggplot2

6,980Stars

2,129Forks

94Open issues

49Open PRs

30Releases

5,747Commits

375Contributors

rvisualisationdata-visualisation

5,747 commits · Last activity 2026-04-22 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-17 · 6,6742026-08-18 · 6,981

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2 on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Show all practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesGovernance doc

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

33 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (12)

cligrDevicesgridgtable isoband lifecycle (> 1.0.1)rlang S7 scalesstatsvctrs withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (28)

broom covr dplyr ggplot2movies hexbin Hmisc hms knitr mapproj mapsMASSmgcvmultcomp munsellnlmeprofvis quantreg quarto ragg RColorBrewer roxygen2rpartsf svglite testthat tibble vdiffr xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (11)

Maintainer (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.0.0

Authors (10)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.0.0

Winston Chang

Author · added in 0.9.2

Dewey Dunnington

Author · added in 3.3.0

Lionel Henry

Author · added in 3.0.0

Kohske Takahashi

Author · added in 3.0.0

Hadley Wickham

Author

Claus Wilke

Author · added in 3.0.0

Kara Woo

Author · added in 3.0.0

Hiroaki Yutani

Author · added in 3.2.0

Teun van den Brand

Author · added in 3.5.0

Copyright holders (1)

Posit, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 3.4.2

Funders (1)

Posit, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 3.4.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 2.0.0 to 3.4.1

Package Timeline

71 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-06-01
Total releases: 71 / 19 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 599 KB / 11 files
Download size: 6.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Pedersen, T. L., Posit, PBC, Chang, W., Dunnington, D., Henry, L., Takahashi, K., Wickham, H., Wilke, C., Woo, K., Yutani, H., & van den Brand, T. (2026). ggplot2: Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics (Version 4.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggplot2

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggplot2 version 4.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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