R Observatory: Metrics for ggstar version 1.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggstar

1.0.6Package record

Multiple Geometric Shape Point Layer for 'ggplot2'

3packages dependsuggested by 1

32.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Shuangbin XuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

To create the multiple polygonal point layer for easily discernible shapes, we developed the package, it is like the 'geom_point' of 'ggplot2'. It can be used to draw the scatter plot.

Changes in 1.0.6

add a version dependency on the new ggiraph. (2025-09-19, Fri)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggstar", 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("xiangpin/ggstar")

Development version from xiangpin/ggstar. 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-ggstar

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-ggstar

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-ggstar

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: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 36%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 45%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

ggstar: basics using.

How these are measured

Downloads

32.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,486 · ~88/day · ~2.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.5K30 days

6.4K90 days

32.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on291 r2u10 autocran1.6K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

xiangpin/ggstar ↗Account: xiangpin

106Stars

8Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

163Commits

3Commit identities

163 commits · Last activity 2026-05-20 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.6.990, ahead of CRAN 1.0.6 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 53
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 18

Stars over time

2025-10-14 · 1012026-07-09 · 106

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/xiangpin/ggstar on 2026-10-11.

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggstar adds 56 packages (29 with compiled code, 44 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, fontLiberation 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (8)

gridutilsggplot2 scales gridExtra cli rlang ggiraph

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr markdown rmarkdown prettydoc purrr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

aplotExtra RChASM gglycan

Suggests, most downloaded first

httkexamples

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Shuangbin Xu

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.4 (2020)

Releases (9)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.6Latest
record
2025-09-19 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
GeomInteractiveStar, geom_star_interactive, scale_angle_manual, scale_starshape_discrete_interactive, scale_starshape_interactive, scale_starshape_manual_interactive
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.4
record
2022-11-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
starshape_pal
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.3
record
2021-12-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.2
record
2021-04-07 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-02-10
1.0.1
record
2021-02-10 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-01-30
check problems were not corrected in time Unconditional use of cairo-based devices
0.0.9
record
2020-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
scale_starshape_identity
0.0.6
record
2020-05-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
GeomStar
0.0.5
record
2020-05-14 · diff ↗

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R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.0.4
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2020-03-19
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-19
Total releases: 9 / 6 yrs
License: Artistic-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 216 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggstar")

Format

Xu, S. (2025). ggstar: Multiple Geometric Shape Point Layer for 'ggplot2' (Version 1.0.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggstar

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggstar version 1.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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