R Observatory: Metrics for ggsci version 5.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggsci

5.2.0

Scientific Journal and Sci-Fi Themed Color Palettes for 'ggplot2'

42packages depend

2.3Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Nan XiaoFirst published 2016-04-0420 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A collection of 'ggplot2' color palettes inspired by plots in scientific journals, data visualization libraries, science fiction movies, and TV shows.

Install

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

install.packages("ggsci", 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("nanxstats/ggsci")

Development version from nanxstats/ggsci. 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-ggsci

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-ggsci

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-ggsci

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-07
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 220 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 5%
References docs: 27%

Downloads

2.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #257 · ~6.4K/day · ~194.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

144.2K30 days

509.8K90 days

2.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on17.2K r2u25 autocran79.7K conda_forge1.7K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ nanxstats/ggsci

744Stars

69Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

18Releases

336Commits

5Contributors

visualizationggplot2color-palettesscientific-journalssci-fidata-visualizationggsci

License GPL-3.0 · 336 commits · Last activity 2026-07-30 · +0.7% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-24 · 6832026-08-07 · 744

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nanxstats/ggsci on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

ggplot2grDevicesrlang scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

gridExtra knitr ragg rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Nan Xiao

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Nan Xiao

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (6)

iTerm2-Color-Schemes contributors

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 4.0.0

Winston Chang

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 4.0.0

Hui Chen

Contributor · added in 3.1.0

Joshua Cook

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

Clara Jégousse

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

Miaozhu Li

Contributor

Copyright holders (3)

Nan Xiao

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

iTerm2-Color-Schemes contributors

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 4.0.0

Winston Chang

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 4.0.0

Package Timeline

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

5.2.0Latest
2026-07-30 · current release · diff ↗
5.1.0
2026-06-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
5.0.0
2026-04-17 · diff ↗
4.3.0
2026-04-09 · diff ↗
4.2.0
2025-12-17 · diff ↗
4.1.0
2025-10-25 · diff ↗
4.0.0
2025-09-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
3.2.0
2024-06-18 · diff ↗
3.1.0
2024-05-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.0.3
2024-03-25 · diff ↗
3.0.2
2024-03-18 · diff ↗
3.0.1
2024-03-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Show 16 earlier events

3.0.0
2023-03-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.9
2018-05-14 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
2.8
2017-09-30 · diff ↗
2.7
2017-06-12 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
2.4
2017-03-08 · diff ↗
2.0
2016-11-21 · diff ↗
1.5
2016-08-05 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.1
2016-04-04
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-04
Total releases: 20 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 2.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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citation("ggsci")

Format

Xiao, N., iTerm2-Color-Schemes contributors, Chang, W., Chen, H., Cook, J., Jégousse, C., & Li, M. (2026). ggsci: Scientific Journal and Sci-Fi Themed Color Palettes for 'ggplot2' (Version 5.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggsci

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggsci version 5.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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