R Observatory: Metrics for ggrepel version 0.9.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggrepel

0.9.8Package record

Automatically Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels with 'ggplot2'

333packages dependsuggested by 181

5Mdownloads / year

69.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kamil SlowikowskiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides text and label geoms for 'ggplot2' that help to avoid overlapping text labels. Labels repel away from each other and away from the data points.

Changes in 0.9.8

Changes

The minimum required version of R has decreased from 4.5.0 to 4.1.0 to avoid issues with reverse dependencies.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggrepel", 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("slowkow/ggrepel")

Development version from slowkow/ggrepel. 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-ggrepel

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-ggrepel

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-ggrepel

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: 3.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE11 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-04-16
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.8

READMEYes · 345 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.9.8Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 47%
Return-value docs: 25%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

ggrepel examples

How these are measured

Downloads

5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #154 · ~13.6K/day · ~412.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

393K30 days

1.1M90 days

5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72.9K r2u125 autocran415.8K conda_forge499 bioconda3.1K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

slowkow/ggrepel ↗Account: slowkow

1,262Stars

95Forks

23Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

573Commits

26Commit identities

ggplot2cranvisualizationtextrstats

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 573 commits · Last activity 2026-10-09 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.9.8.9999, ahead of CRAN 0.9.8 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 70%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 52
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 13

Stars over time

2025-10-22 · 1,2352026-10-06 · 1,262

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/slowkow/ggrepel on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesFunding

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-15, before release 0.9.8 (2026-03-17)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-02-25
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.61 commit · Apr 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggrepel adds 18 packages (8 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0ggplot2

Imports (6)

gridRcpp rlang S7 scales withr (>= 3.0.2)

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (18)

knitr rmarkdown testthat svglite vdiffr gridExtra ggpp patchwork devtools prettydoc ggbeeswarm dplyr magrittr readr stringr marquee rsvg sf

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

333direct

543indirect

Depends 5 · Imports 328

Suggested by 181

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 285 more dependents and 181 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (19)

Kamil Slowikowski

Author, Maintainer since 0.3 (2016)

Amir Masoud Abdol

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Pedro Aphalo

Contributor · added in 0.9.1

Malcolm Barrett

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Francis Barton

Contributor · added in 0.9.4

Robrecht Cannoodt

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Michael Chirico

Contributor · added in 0.9.1

Dervieux Christophe

Contributor · added in 0.8.0

Trung Kien Dang

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

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Pierre Gramme

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Yutani Hiroaki

Contributor · added in 0.8.0

Sean Hughes

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Jean-Olivier Irisson

Contributor · added in 0.6.5

Zhian N Kamvar

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Michał Krassowski

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Saulius Lukauskas

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Thompson Ryan

Contributor · added in 0.8.0

Alicia Schep

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Teun van den Brand

Contributor · added in 0.9.7

Releases (18)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.8Latest
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2026-03-17 · current release · diff ↗
0.9.7
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2026-02-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
GeomMarqueeRepel, element_text_repel, geom_marquee_repel
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.9.6
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2024-09-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.9.5
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2024-01-10 · diff ↗
0.9.4
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2023-10-13 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.9.3
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2023-02-03 · diff ↗
0.9.2
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2022-11-06 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.9.1
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2021-01-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
PositionNudgeRepel, position_nudge_repel
0.9.0
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2020-12-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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0.8.2
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2020-03-08 · diff ↗
0.8.1
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2019-05-07 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.8.0
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2018-05-09 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.7.0
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2017-09-30 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.6.5
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2016-11-24 · diff ↗
0.6.3
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2016-10-20 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.5
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2016-02-08 · diff ↗
0.4
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2016-01-12 · diff ↗
0.3
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2016-01-09
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-09
Total releases: 18 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 148 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggrepel")

Format

Slowikowski, K., Abdol, A. M., Aphalo, P., Barrett, M., Barton, F., Cannoodt, R., Chirico, M., Christophe, D., Dang, T. K., Gramme, P., Hiroaki, Y., Hughes, S., Irisson, J., Kamvar, Z. N., Krassowski, M., Lukauskas, S., Ryan, T., Schep, A., & van den Brand, T. (2026). ggrepel: Automatically Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels with 'ggplot2' (Version 0.9.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggrepel

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

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggrepel version 0.9.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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