R Observatory: Metrics for gplots version 3.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gplots

3.3.0Package record

Various R Programming Tools for Plotting Data

73packages dependsuggested by 32

1.4Mdownloads / year

14.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tal GaliliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Various R programming tools for plotting data, including: - calculating and plotting locally smoothed summary function as ('bandplot', 'wapply'), - enhanced versions of standard plots ('barplot2', 'boxplot2', 'heatmap.2', 'smartlegend'), - manipulating colors ('col2hex', 'colorpanel', 'redgreen', 'greenred', 'bluered', 'redblue', 'rich.colors'), - calculating and plotting two-dimensional data summaries ('ci2d', 'hist2d'), - enhanced regression diagnostic plots ('lmplot2', 'residplot'), - formula-enabled interface to 'stats::lowess' function ('lowess'), - displaying textual data in plots ('textplot', 'sinkplot'), - plotting dots whose size reflects the relative magnitude of the elements ('balloonplot', 'bubbleplot'), - plotting "Venn" diagrams ('venn'), - displaying Open-Office style plots ('ooplot'), - plotting multiple data on same region, with separate axes ('overplot'), - plotting means and confidence intervals ('plotCI', 'plotmeans'), - spacing points in an x-y plot so they don't overlap ('space').

Changes in 3.3.0

documentation:

Showcase dendextend and heatmaply in heatmap.2.Rd.
Adding heatmap.2.Rmd vignette based on heatmap.2.Rd.
Add welcome message.
Remove old defunct functions: \alias{boxplot.n} \alias{plot.lm2} \alias{smartlegend}

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gplots", 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("talgalili/gplots")

Development version from talgalili/gplots. 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-gplots

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-gplots

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-gplots

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: 3.3 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.3.0

READMEYes · 134 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 3.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 30
Examples that run: 96%27 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 70%
Help pages citing references: 13%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

1.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #330 · ~3.8K/day · ~114.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

109.3K30 days

311.4K90 days

1.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on33.9K r2u187 autocran263.2K conda_forge1.4K bioconda1.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

talgalili/gplots ↗Account: talgalili

14Stars

6Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

74Commits

6Commit identities

74 commits · Last activity 2025-11-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 5

Stars over time

2025-04-04 · 142026-07-07 · 14

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/talgalili/gplots on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductIssue templates

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-11-29 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-11-29, before release 3.3.0 (2025-11-30)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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Lint, format, editor (2)

Lint workflowRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-11-29
Seen in the repository: .github/copilot-instructions.md
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 1 by its own account · at least 1 crediting it in the message

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gplots adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 311 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: gtools 236 KB, caTools 64 KB, bitops 11 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (5)

gtoolsstatscaToolsKernSmoothmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

gridMASSknitr rmarkdown r2d2nlmedendextend heatmaply RColorBrewer

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

73direct

179indirect

Depends 16 · Imports 57

Suggested by 32

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 25 more dependents and 32 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (13)

Tal Galili

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.0.3

Ben Bolker

Author · added in 2.0.8

Lodewijk Bonebakker

Author · added in 2.7.0

Robert Gentleman

Author · added in 2.7.0

Wolfgang Huber

Author · added in 3.0.3

Andy Liaw

Author · added in 3.0.3

Thomas Lumley

Author · added in 2.0.8

Martin Maechler

Author · added in 2.7.0

Arni Magnusson

Author · added in 2.7.0

Steffen Moeller

Author · added in 2.7.0

Marc Schwartz

Author · added in 2.7.0

Bill Venables

Author · added in 2.7.0

Gregory R. Warnes

Author · added in 2.11.3

Maintainer since 2.3.1 (2006), previously Nitin Jain (2.0.7 to 2.3.0)

Listed in earlier versions (21)

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as well as the Perl modules - "IO-stringy"

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- Spreadsheet::ParseExcel under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence .

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- Ben Bolker

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- Lodewijk Bonebakker

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- Bendix Carstensen

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- R. Gentleman

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- Kjetil Halvorsen

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- W. Huber - Nitin Jain

no longer listed · 2.0.7

Releases (38)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.3.0Latest
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smartlegend
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adjust_hsv, bubbleplot
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-02-25
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2020-01-11
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Package metadata

First published: 2005-05-30
Total releases: 38 / 21 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Bundled data: 37 KB / 3 files
Download size: 4.6 MB

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Galili, T., Bolker, B., Bonebakker, L., Gentleman, R., Huber, W., Liaw, A., Lumley, T., Maechler, M., Magnusson, A., Moeller, S., Schwartz, M., Venables, B., & Warnes, G. R. (2025). gplots: Various R Programming Tools for Plotting Data (Version 3.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gplots

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gplots version 3.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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