R Observatory: Metrics for ggridges version 0.5.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggridges

0.5.7Package record

Ridgeline Plots in 'ggplot2'

57packages dependsuggested by 44

3.8Mdownloads / year

75.5%test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Claus O. WilkeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Ridgeline plots provide a convenient way of visualizing changes in distributions over time or space. This package enables the creation of such plots in 'ggplot2'.

Changes in 0.5.7

Various fixes for latest versions of R and ggplot2.
Add support for weighted density estimates in stat_density_ridges() by allowing the use of the weight aesthetic (@joranE, #90)
Add support for grid::pattern(), grid::linearGradient(), and grid::radialGradient() values for fill and point_fill aesthetics by using ggplot2::fill_alpha() (@trevorld, #94)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggridges", 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("wilkelab/ggridges")

Development version from wilkelab/ggridges. 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-ggridges

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-ggridges

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-ggridges

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

1ERROR12OK

Check messages

ERRORre-building of vignette outputsr-release-macos-arm64

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘gallery.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘gallery.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘introduction.Rmd’ using rmarkdown

Quitting from introduction.Rmd:281-290 [unnamed-chunk-27]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<error/rlang_error>
Error in `library()`:
! there is no package called 'dplyr'
---
Backtrace:
    ▆
 1. └─base::library(dplyr)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Error: processing vignette 'introduction.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
there is no package called 'dplyr'
--- failed re-building ‘introduction.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘introduction.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERRORNow
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-27
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.7

READMEYes · 94 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.5.7Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 19 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%14 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 7%
Help pages citing references: 11%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #159 · ~10.4K/day · ~317.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

277.6K30 days

1.1M90 days

3.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on40.6K r2u153 autocran174.2K conda_forge1.4K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

wilkelab/ggridges ↗Organization: wilkelab

425Stars

36Forks

44Open issues

3Open PRs

8Releases

214Commits

16Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 214 commits · Last activity 2026-06-18 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.7.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.5.7 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-10-08 · 4192026-09-13 · 425

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/wilkelab/ggridges 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)

Issue templates

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-18

pkgdown site last built 2025-08-26, before release 0.5.7 (2025-08-27)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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 2026-06-18
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.81 commit · Jun 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

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggridges adds 17 packages (7 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2

Imports (4)

ggplot2gridscales withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

covr dplyr patchwork ggplot2movies forcats knitr rmarkdown testthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

57direct

192indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 56

Suggested by 44

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 9 more dependents and 44 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Claus O. Wilke

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2017)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.4.0 to 0.5.1

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.7Latest
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2025-08-27 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
scale_linewidth_cyclical
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.6
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2024-01-23 · diff ↗
0.5.5
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2023-12-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
scale_vline_size_continuous

added 1 export
scale_vline_width_continuous
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.4
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2022-09-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-01-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5.2
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2020-01-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
scale_discrete_manual
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.5.1
record
2018-09-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
scale_point_colour_continuous, scale_point_colour_discrete, scale_point_colour_gradient, scale_point_colour_hue, scale_vline_colour_continuous, scale_vline_colour_discrete, scale_vline_colour_gradient, scale_vline_colour_hue
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.5.0
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2018-04-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 27 exports
GeomDensityLine, PositionPointsJitter, PositionPointsSina, PositionRaincloud, geom_density_line, position_points_jitter, position_points_sina, position_raincloud, scale_discrete_manual, scale_point_color_continuous, scale_point_color_discrete, scale_point_color_gradient, scale_point_color_hue, scale_point_fill_continuous, scale_point_fill_discrete, scale_point_fill_gradient, scale_point_fill_hue, scale_point_shape, scale_point_shape_discrete, scale_point_size_continuous, scale_vline_color_continuous, scale_vline_color_discrete, scale_vline_color_gradient, scale_vline_color_hue, scale_vline_linetype, scale_vline_linetype_discrete, scale_vline_size_continuous
0.4.1
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2017-09-15 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2017-09-14
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-09-14
Total releases: 10 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2
Bundled data: 67 KB / 3 files
Download size: 2.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggridges")

Format

Wilke, C. O. (2025). ggridges: Ridgeline Plots in 'ggplot2' (Version 0.5.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggridges

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 ggridges version 0.5.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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