R Observatory: Metrics for ggtern version 4.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggtern

4.0.0

An Extension to 'ggplot2', for the Creation of Ternary Diagrams

2packages dependsuggested by 7

55Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicholas HamiltonCRAN page ↗

Extends the functionality of 'ggplot2', providing the capability to plot ternary diagrams for (subset of) the 'ggplot2' geometries. Additionally, 'ggtern' has implemented several NEW geometries which are unavailable to the standard 'ggplot2' release.

Changes in 4.0.0

Fixed broken compatability with ggplot2 4.0.X
Changed to S& methods where necessasry
Enforced liniewidth vs size for line-type grobs
Changed to rel from unit for ticklength theme elements

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggtern", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-ggtern

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-ggtern

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-ggtern

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘theme.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.0.0

READMEYes · 296 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 4.0.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 77 (7 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%41 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 59%
Documented parameters: 77%
Return-value docs: 15%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Also includes 2 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

55K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,014 · ~151/day · ~4.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3K30 days

9K90 days

55K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on649 r2u11 autocran3.4K conda_forge61 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggtern adds 29 packages (15 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, compositions 2.7 MB, robustbase 2.2 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0ggplot2

Imports (15)

compositionsgridgridExtra gtable (>= 0.1.2)latex2expMASSplyr scales (>= 1.3.0)statsprotoutilslatticehexbin (>= 1.28.2)methodsrlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 1

Suggested by 7

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

plot3logit tricolore

Suggests, most downloaded first

dartR dartR.base HRRI codalm soilFlux vdar yaap

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Nicholas Hamilton

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1.3 (2013)

Releases (26)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
4.0.0Latest
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2025-11-26 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.5.0
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2024-03-24 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-06-06
3.4.2
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2023-06-06 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-05-07
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
3.4.1
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2022-12-06 · diff ↗
3.4.0
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2022-11-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
3.3.5
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2021-07-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
3.3.0
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2020-04-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
%+%, calc_element, theme

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
3.1.0
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2018-12-19 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2015-03-03
misuse of '\donttest' was not corrected
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
3.0.3
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2014-01-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
unit
3.0.0.1
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2018-11-06 · diff ↗
3.0.0
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2018-08-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 13 exports
GeomHexTern, GeomPolygonClosed, GeomTriTern, StatHexTern, StatTriTern, geom_hex_tern, geom_polygon_closed, geom_tri_tern, stat_hex_tern, stat_tri_tern, theme_ticklength, theme_ticklength_major, theme_ticklength_minor
2.2.1
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2017-07-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
GeomLabelViewport, GeomMeanEllipse, GeomTextViewport, StatMeanEllipse, geom_label_viewport, geom_mean_ellipse, geom_text_viewport, stat_mean_ellipse
2.2.0
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2016-11-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
layer_grob, layer_scales, theme_get, theme_set

added 22 exports
%+%, GeomMask, breaks_tern, find_global_tern, labels_tern, rgb2hex, theme_arrowlarge, theme_bluedark, theme_bluelight, theme_bvbg, theme_bvbw, theme_hidelatex, theme_latex, theme_matrix, theme_nolatex, theme_showlatex, theme_tropical, theme_zoom_L, theme_zoom_M, theme_zoom_R, theme_zoom_T, theme_zoom_center
2.1.4
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2016-07-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
is.ggplot, plot_clone

added 3 exports
getBreaks, getLabels, theme_mesh
2.1.3
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2016-07-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
annotate, theme_ggtern
2.1.2
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2016-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
theme_hidemask, theme_nomask, theme_showmask
2.1.1
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2016-03-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
GeomPointSwap, GeomRasterAnnTern, annotation_raster_tern, draw_key_point_swap, geom_point_swap, theme_bordersonbottom, theme_bordersontop, theme_gridsonbottom
2.1.0
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2016-03-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
scales_list

added 18 exports
GeomCrosshairTern, GeomLmark, GeomRmark, GeomTmark, draw_key_Liso, draw_key_Lline, draw_key_Lmark, draw_key_Riso, draw_key_Rline, draw_key_Rmark, draw_key_Tiso, draw_key_Tline, draw_key_Tmark, draw_key_crosshair_tern, geom_Lmark, geom_Rmark, geom_Tmark, geom_crosshair_tern
2.0.1
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2016-01-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 15 exports
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+, unit, %+%, %+replace%, arrow, ifthenelse, geom_smooth, geom_polygon_tern, theme_tern_bw, theme_tern_gray, theme_tern_rgbg, theme_tern_rgbw, theme_rgb, theme_arrowlarge, polyclip

added 90 exports
CoordTern, GeomConfidenceTern, GeomDensityTern, GeomErrorbarl, GeomErrorbarr, GeomErrorbart, GeomInterpolateTern, GeomLisoprop, GeomLline, GeomRisoprop, GeomRline, GeomSmoothTern, GeomTisoprop, GeomTline, Larrowlab, Llab, Lline, PositionJitterTern, PositionNudgeTern, Rarrowlab, Rlab, Rline, StatConfidenceTern, StatDensityTern, StatInterpolateTern, StatSmoothTern, Tarrowlab, Tlab, Tline, Wlab and 60 more
1.0.6.1
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2015-10-12 · diff ↗
1.0.6.0
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2015-08-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
stat_density2d, geom_density2d

added 7 exports
stat_density_tern, geom_density_tern, geom_interpolate_tern, stat_interpolate_tern, geom_polygon_tern, theme_novar_tern, polyclip
1.0.5.0
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2015-04-15 · diff ↗
1.0.3.2
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2014-05-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 36 exports
geom_errorbarT, geom_errorbarL, geom_errorbarR, theme_hidearrows, theme_minimal, theme_classic, theme_bw, theme_gray, theme_rgbw, theme_rgbg, theme_rgb, theme_showtitles, theme_hidetitles, theme_notitles, theme_showlabels, theme_hidelabels, theme_nolabels, theme_counterclockwise, theme_anticlockwise, theme_clockwise, theme_showgrid, theme_hidegrid, theme_showgrid_major, theme_showgrid_minor, theme_hidegrid_major, theme_hidegrid_minor, theme_arrowsmall, theme_arrowshort, theme_arrownormal, theme_arrowdefault and 6 more
1.0.3.1
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2014-01-31 · diff ↗
1.0.2.0
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2014-01-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 11 exports
arrow_label_formatter, calc_element_plot, sink_density, remove_outside, find_global, get_last_coord, get_tern_extremes, trytransform, set_last_coord, strip_unapproved, transform_tern_to_cart

added 13 exports
geom_density2d, geom_confidence, theme_noticks, theme_hideticks, theme_showticks, theme_noprimary, theme_showprimary, theme_hideprimary, theme_nosecondary, theme_showsecondary, theme_hidesecondary, theme_ticksinside, theme_ticksoutside
1.0.1.3
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2013-12-18
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-12-18
Total releases: 26 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-2 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 68 KB / 6 files
Download size: 584 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("ggtern")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v087.c03.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggtern version 4.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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