R Observatory: Metrics for ggrastr version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggrastr

1.0.2Package record

Rasterize Layers for 'ggplot2'

6packages dependsuggested by 9

1Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Evan BiederstedtCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Rasterize only specific layers of a 'ggplot2' plot while simultaneously keeping all labels and text in vector format. This allows users to keep plots within the reasonable size limit without loosing vector properties of the scale-sensitive information.

Install

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

install.packages("ggrastr", 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("VPetukhov/ggrastr")

Development version from VPetukhov/ggrastr. 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-ggrastr

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-ggrastr

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-ggrastr

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: 8.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMEYes · 274 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #220 · ~2.9K/day · ~87.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

423.4K30 days

638.7K90 days

1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on5.3K r2u4 autocran77.9K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

vpetukhov/ggrastr ↗Account: VPetukhov

240Stars

18Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

223Commits

8Commit identities

223 commits · Last activity 2023-06-06 · +0.4% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 78
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-23 · 2282026-10-05 · 240

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/vpetukhov/ggrastr on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)CircleCI

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggrastr adds 28 packages (16 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, vipor 4.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.2

Imports (6)

ggplot2 Cairo ggbeeswarmgridpng ragg

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr maps rmarkdown sf

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

2indirect

Imports 6

Suggested by 9

Show all 15 packagesHide all 15 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

scCustomize tidyplots RGraphSpace ClustAssess HetSeq power.nb

Suggests, most downloaded first

Seurat sccore SCpubr conos numbat hahmmr dittoViz RNAseqQC grandR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Evan Biederstedt

Maintainer since 0.1.8 (2020), Author

Viktor Petukhov

Author, Copyright holder

Teun van den Brand

Author · added in 0.2.0

Releases (9)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.2Latest
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2023-06-01 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.1
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2021-12-08 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2021-11-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.3
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2021-03-01 · diff ↗
0.2.2
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2021-02-19 · diff ↗
0.2.1
record
2020-09-14 · diff ↗
0.2.0
record
2020-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
geom_violin_rast, rasterise, rasterize
0.1.9
record
2020-06-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
geom_jitter_rast
0.1.8
record
2020-06-17
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-17
Total releases: 9 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.2
Download size: 2.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggrastr")

Format

Biederstedt, E., Petukhov, V., & van den Brand, T. (2023). ggrastr: Rasterize Layers for 'ggplot2' (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggrastr

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 ggrastr version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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