R Observatory: Metrics for ggraph version 2.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggraph

2.2.2Package record

An Implementation of Grammar of Graphics for Graphs and Networks

78packages dependsuggested by 67

908.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The grammar of graphics as implemented in ggplot2 is a poor fit for graph and network visualizations due to its reliance on tabular data input. ggraph is an extension of the ggplot2 API tailored to graph visualizations and provides the same flexible approach to building up plots layer by layer.

Changes in 2.2.2

Fixed a bug in the collapse functionality of get_edges() (#362)
General upkeep and compatibility with ggplot2 v4.0.0

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggraph", 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("thomasp85/ggraph")

Development version from thomasp85/ggraph. 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-ggraph

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-ggraph

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-ggraph

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

Additional issues

rchk

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 12.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-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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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2.2

READMEYes · 581 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 84 (9 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%37 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 66%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 34%
Help pages citing references: 21%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

908.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #412 · ~2.5K/day · ~75.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

64.6K30 days

207K90 days

908.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on10K r2u8 autocran95.2K conda_forge454 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

thomasp85/ggraph ↗Account: thomasp85

1,120Stars

114Forks

51Open issues

8Open PRs

12Releases

408Commits

16Commit identities

graph-visualizationggplot2visualizationnetwork-visualizationrggplot-extension

408 commits · Last activity 2025-08-25 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.2.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.2.2 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 66%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1,094
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 17

Stars over time

2025-10-19 · 1,0952026-10-09 · 1,120

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thomasp85/ggraph on 2026-10-18.

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)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-08-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-08-25

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirVS Code

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggraph adds 46 packages (29 with compiled code, 45 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10ggplot2

Imports (18)

dplyr ggforcegridigraph scalesMASSggrepelutilsstatsviridis rlang tidygraph graphlayouts withr cli vctrs lifecycle memoise

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (11)

network knitr rmarkdown purrr tibble seriation deldir gganimate covr sf sfnetworks

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

78direct

14indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 77

Suggested by 67

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 30 more dependents and 67 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2017), Author

RStudio

Copyright holder · added in 2.0.0

Releases (14)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.2.2Latest
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2025-08-24 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.2.1
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2024-03-07 · diff ↗
2.2.0
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2024-02-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 23 exports
GeomEdgeSf, StatEdgeBundleForce, StatEdgeBundleForce0, StatEdgeBundleForce2, StatEdgeBundleMinimal, StatEdgeBundleMinimal0, StatEdgeBundleMinimal2, StatEdgeBundlePath, StatEdgeBundlePath0, StatEdgeBundlePath2, StatFilterSf, StatReverse, geom_edge_bundle_force, geom_edge_bundle_force0, geom_edge_bundle_force2, geom_edge_bundle_minimal, geom_edge_bundle_minimal0, geom_edge_bundle_minimal2, geom_edge_bundle_path, geom_edge_bundle_path0, geom_edge_bundle_path2, geom_edge_sf, geom_node_sf
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.1.0
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2022-10-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 24 exports
guide_edge_colorsteps, guide_edge_coloursteps, scale_edge_alpha_binned, scale_edge_color_binned, scale_edge_color_fermenter, scale_edge_color_steps, scale_edge_color_steps2, scale_edge_color_stepsn, scale_edge_colour_binned, scale_edge_colour_fermenter, scale_edge_colour_steps, scale_edge_colour_steps2, scale_edge_colour_stepsn, scale_edge_fill_binned, scale_edge_fill_fermenter, scale_edge_fill_steps, scale_edge_fill_steps2, scale_edge_fill_stepsn, scale_edge_linetype_binned, scale_edge_shape_binned, scale_edge_size_binned, scale_edge_size_binned_area, scale_edge_width_binned, scale_label_size_binned
2.0.6
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2022-08-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.0.5
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2021-02-23 · diff ↗
2.0.4
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2020-11-16 · diff ↗
2.0.3
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2020-05-20 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.0.2
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2020-03-17 · diff ↗

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2.0.1
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2020-02-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
autograph
2.0.0
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2019-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 13 exports
createLayout, den_to_igraph, eAngle, gCon, gEdges, geom_node_treemap, geom_treemap, getConnections, getEdges, nAngle, network_to_igraph, treeApply, tree_apply

added 32 exports
GeomEdgeParallelPath, GeomEdgeParallelSegment, GeomEdgePoint, GeomEdgeSpanPath, GeomEdgeSpanSegment, GeomEdgeTile, StatEdgeBend, StatEdgeBend0, StatEdgeBend2, StatEdgeParallel, StatEdgeParallel0, StatEdgeParallel2, StatNodeVoronoi, collect_connections, collect_edges, geom_edge_bend, geom_edge_bend0, geom_edge_bend2, geom_edge_parallel, geom_edge_parallel0, geom_edge_parallel2, geom_edge_point, geom_edge_span, geom_edge_span0, geom_edge_span2, geom_edge_tile, geom_node_range, geom_node_voronoi, layout_to_table, node_rank_fabric and 2 more
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.2
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2018-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
guide_gengrob.edge_direction, guide_geom.edge_direction, guide_merge.edge_direction, guide_train.edge_colourbar, guide_train.edge_direction, scale_type.geometry
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.1
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2018-01-29 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0.0
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2017-02-24
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-02-24
Total releases: 14 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 2.0.0
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 10.0 KB / 3 files
Download size: 3.4 MB

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citation("ggraph")

Format

Pedersen, T. L., & RStudio. (2025). ggraph: An Implementation of Grammar of Graphics for Graphs and Networks (Version 2.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggraph

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggraph version 2.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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