R Observatory: Metrics for ggpubr version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggpubr

1.0.0

'ggplot2' Based Publication Ready Plots

320packages depend

3Mdownloads / year

64.5%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Alboukadel KassambaraFirst published 2016-07-2024 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The 'ggplot2' package is excellent and flexible for elegant data visualization in R. However the default generated plots require some formatting before we can send them for publication. Furthermore, to customize a 'ggplot', the syntax is opaque and this raises the level of difficulty for researchers with no advanced R programming skills. 'ggpubr' provides some easy-to-use functions for creating and customizing 'ggplot2'-based publication ready plots. This version includes modern R ecosystem compatibility updates and customizable p-value formatting presets (APA, AMA, NEJM, Lancet, GraphPad, and scientific notation) for publication workflows, plus robust sparse-subset handling in statistical annotation layers such as 'stat_compare_means()' and 'geom_pwc()', with informative per-group skip diagnostics for non-comparable subsets.

Install

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

install.packages("ggpubr", 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("kassambara/ggpubr")

Development version from kassambara/ggpubr. 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-ggpubr

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-ggpubr

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-ggpubr

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 12.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.37

64.5%

Coverage · measured lines

99%

Documentation · exports

19

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-11
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-03
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 443 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 94%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 27%
References docs: 1%

Downloads

3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #216 · ~8.3K/day · ~251.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

187.7K30 days

699.2K90 days

3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on15K r2u2 autocran77.9K conda_forge1.6K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ kassambara/ggpubr

1,265Stars

183Forks

4Open issues

1Open PRs

24Releases

1,217Commits

9Contributors

1,217 commits · Last activity 2026-07-31 · +1.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-17 · 1,1902026-08-16 · 1,265

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kassambara/ggpubr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Show all practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2025-12-21

claudecodex

Most recent: codex on 2026-07-04

Evidence

claude: on or before 2025-12-21 · evidence B, D
codex: on 2026-07-04 · evidence D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0ggplot2

Imports (18)

ggrepelgridggscistatsutilstidyr (>= 1.3.2)purrr dplyr cowplot ggsignif scales gridExtra glue polynom rlang rstatix (>= 1.0.0)tibble magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

grDevicesknitr RColorBrewer gtable testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

320direct

118indirect

and 272 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Alboukadel Kassambara

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Alboukadel Kassambara

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Laszlo Erdey

Contributor · added in 0.6.3

Package Timeline

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

1.0.0Latest
2026-07-06 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.3
2026-02-24 · diff ↗
0.6.2
2025-10-17 · diff ↗
0.6.1
2025-06-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.6.0
2023-02-10 · diff ↗
0.5.0
2022-11-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.0
2020-06-27 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2020-05-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.5
2020-02-13 · diff ↗

Show 19 earlier events

0.2.4
2019-11-14 · diff ↗
0.2.3
2019-09-04 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2019-08-07 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2019-06-23 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2
2018-11-15 · diff ↗
0.1.9
2018-11-11 · diff ↗
0.1.8
2018-08-30 · diff ↗
0.1.7
2018-06-23 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.6
2017-11-14 · diff ↗
0.1.5
2017-08-22 · diff ↗
0.1.4
2017-06-28 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2017-06-06 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.2
2017-03-14 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2016-12-05 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2016-07-20
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-07-20
Total releases: 24 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 779 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggpubr")

Format

Kassambara, A., & Erdey, L. (2026). ggpubr: 'ggplot2' Based Publication Ready Plots (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggpubr

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Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggpubr version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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