R Observatory: Metrics for ggvfields version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggvfields

1.0.1Package record

Vector Field Visualizations with 'ggplot2'

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

86.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dusty TurnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A 'ggplot2' extension for visualizing vector fields in two-dimensional space. Provides flexible tools for creating vector and stream field layers, visualizing gradients and potential fields, and smoothing vector and scalar data to estimate underlying patterns.

Changes in 1.0.1

Fixed the length legend for geom_vector_field2() (and the related stream geoms): GeomStream now uses a custom draw_key that dispatches to draw_key_length() when the length aesthetic is mapped, so the legend relating segment lengths to vector norms is drawn again.
Corrected the handling of the time variable t in geom_stream().
Fixed the draw order of grobs in the stream and vector geoms and suppressed spurious output from the kriging step.
Fixed handling of the linewidth argument.
Added an option to choose between gam and lm when smoothing.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggvfields", 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("dusty-turner/ggvfields")

Development version from dusty-turner/ggvfields. 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-ggvfields

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-ggvfields

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-ggvfields

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: 4.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 1,585 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 64%7 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,022 · ~8/day · ~248/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40730 days

1.1K90 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on82 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

dusty-turner/ggvfields ↗Account: dusty-turner

4Stars

0Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

490Commits

4Commit identities

490 commits · Last activity 2026-06-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-23 · 32026-08-21 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dusty-turner/ggvfields on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggvfields adds 43 packages (25 with compiled code, 48 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0ggplot2

Imports (11)

farver tibble numDeriv deSolvegridutilsscales sp gstat climgcv

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

ggdensity knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Dusty Turner

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2025)

David Kahle

Author

Rodney X. Sturdivant

Author

Releases (2)

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1.0.1Latest
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2026-06-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
GeomVectorSmooth
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.0
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2025-03-15
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-03-15
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 2.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggvfields")

Format

Turner, D., Kahle, D., & Sturdivant, R. X. (2026). ggvfields: Vector Field Visualizations with 'ggplot2' (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggvfields

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggvfields version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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