R Observatory: Metrics for ggtext version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggtext

0.2.0Package record

Improved Text Rendering Support for 'ggplot2'

57packages dependsuggested by 37

1Mdownloads / year

84.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brenton M. WiernikCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A 'ggplot2' extension that enables the rendering of complex formatted plot labels (titles, subtitles, facet labels, axis labels, etc.). Text boxes with automatic word wrap are also supported.

Install

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

install.packages("ggtext", 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/ggtext")

Development version from wilkelab/ggtext. 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-ggtext

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-ggtext

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-ggtext

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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-09-04
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-07-12
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 483 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 72%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Markdown theme elements HTML
Plotting with markdown text HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #340 · ~2.8K/day · ~86K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

76.6K30 days

291.5K90 days

1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on21.5K r2u2 autocran59.3K conda_forge325 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

wilkelab/ggtext ↗Organization: wilkelab

667Stars

38Forks

48Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

85Commits

5Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 85 commits · Last activity 2026-08-26 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 80

Stars over time

2025-09-27 · 6592026-10-09 · 667

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/wilkelab/ggtext on 2026-10-21.

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 2026-08-26

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggtext adds 30 packages (17 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (5)

ggplot2gridgridtext rlang scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

cowplot dplyr glue knitr rmarkdown testthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

57direct

72indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 56

Suggested by 37

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 9 more dependents and 37 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Brenton M. Wiernik

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2022) · added in 0.1.2

@bmwiernik

Claus O. Wilke

Author

Previously maintained by Claus O. Wilke (0.1.0 to 0.1.1).

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.0Latest
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2026-08-28 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
draw_key_richtext
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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
0.1.2
record
2022-09-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.1
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2020-12-17 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2020-06-04
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-04
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggtext")

Format

Wiernik, B. M., & Wilke, C. O. (2026). ggtext: Improved Text Rendering Support for 'ggplot2' (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggtext

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 ggtext version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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