R Observatory: Metrics for grImport2 version 0.3-3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

grImport2

0.3-3Package record

Importing 'SVG' Graphics

9packages dependsuggested by 7

58.5Kdownloads / year

54.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul MurrellCRAN page ↗Repository ↗Website ↗

Functions for importing external vector images and drawing them as part of 'R' plots. This package is different from the 'grImport' package because, where that package imports 'PostScript' format images, this package imports 'SVG' format images. Furthermore, this package imports a specific subset of 'SVG', so external images must be preprocessed using a package like 'rsvg' to produce 'SVG' that this package can import. 'SVG' features that are not supported by 'R' graphics, e.g., gradient fills, can be imported and then exported via the 'gridSVG' package.

Changes in 0.3-3

Respond to hjust and vjust (previously ignored).
Allow width and height to be NULL (in fact those are now the defaults) and fill them in based on image aspect ratio.

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("grImport2", 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-grimport2

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-grImport2

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-grImport2

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3-3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · mentions 0.3-3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 32
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 25%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 3%

How these are measured

Downloads

58.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,836 · ~160/day · ~4.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.9K30 days

10.9K90 days

58.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on391 r2u7 autocran4.1K conda_forge108 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-forge.r-project.org/projects/grimport ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository r-forge.r-project.org/projects/grimport is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing grImport2 adds 4 packages (4 with compiled code, 989 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: XML 937 KB, png 24 KB, jpeg 19 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.12.0

Imports (7)

methodsgrDevicesgridXML png jpeg base64enc

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

gridSVG rsvg

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

3indirect

Imports 9

Suggested by 7

Show all 16 packagesHide all 16 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rphylopic deeptime piecepackr RIdeogram RGraphics ggicons ggfoundry SDAR HyRiM

Suggests, most downloaded first

dataquieR deeptimedata cograph gridmicrotex pcutils spiralize nVennR2

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Paul Murrell

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-4 (2018)

Simon Potter

Author

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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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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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-03-20
Total releases: 6 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.12.0
Download size: 168 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("grImport2")

Format

Murrell, P., & Potter, S. (2024). grImport2: Importing 'SVG' Graphics (Version 0.3-3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.grImport2

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 grImport2 version 0.3-3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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