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heatmaply

1.6.0

Interactive Cluster Heat Maps Using 'plotly' and 'ggplot2'

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171.1Kdownloads / year
91.7%test coverage
13/13checks pass

Overview

About
Maintained by Tal GaliliFirst published 2016-05-2625 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create interactive cluster 'heatmaps' that can be saved as a stand- alone HTML file, embedded in 'R Markdown' documents or in a 'Shiny' app, and available in the 'RStudio' viewer pane. Hover the mouse pointer over a cell to show details or drag a rectangle to zoom. A 'heatmap' is a popular graphical method for visualizing high-dimensional data, in which a table of numbers are encoded as a grid of colored cells. The rows and columns of the matrix are ordered to highlight patterns and are often accompanied by 'dendrograms'. 'Heatmaps' are used in many fields for visualizing observations, correlations, missing values patterns, and more. Interactive 'heatmaps' allow the inspection of specific value by hovering the mouse over a cell, as well as zooming into a region of the 'heatmap' by dragging a rectangle around the relevant area. This work is based on the 'ggplot2' and 'plotly.js' engine. It produces similar 'heatmaps' to 'heatmap.2' with the advantage of speed ('plotly.js' is able to handle larger size matrix), the ability to zoom from the 'dendrogram' panes, and the placing of factor variables in the sides of the 'heatmap'.

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Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 7.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
Code health
Yes
Tests · ratio 0.17
91.7%
Coverage · measured lines
100%
Documentation · exports
18
Dependencies · direct
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Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 895 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
29%
Documented parameters
86%
Return-value docs
67%
References docs
10%

Downloads

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Repository

Repository
408Stars
75Forks
38Open issues
1Open PRs
1Releases
613Commits
13Contributors
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Repository practices

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5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies
20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (3)
R >= 3.0.0plotlyviridis
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none
Enhances (0)
none

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)
Maintainer (1)
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Authors (2)
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Author · added in 0.9.1
Contributors (3)
Contributor · added in 1.3.0
Contributor · added in 0.8.2
Contributor · added in 1.6.0
Copyright holders (1)
Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder
Other (1)
Thesis advisor · added in 0.6.0
Listed in earlier versions (1)
no longer listed · 0.6.0 to 0.8.2
Package Timeline

25 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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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 4.2.0 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
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    2017-03-21 · diff ↗
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    2017-01-22 · diff ↗
  • 0.6.0
    2016-11-06 · diff ↗
  • 0.5.0
    2016-08-27 · diff ↗
  • 0.3.2
    2016-05-26
  • R
    R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published
2016-05-26
Total releases
25 / 10 yrs
License
GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R
≥ 3.0.0
Download size
1.8 MB
Installed size
not tracked yet
With dependencies
not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("heatmaply")
Galili, T., Benjamini, Y., Joo, J., O'Callaghan, A., Sidi, J., & Simenc, M. (2025). heatmaply: Interactive Cluster Heat Maps Using 'plotly' and 'ggplot2' (Version 1.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.heatmaply

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for heatmaply version 1.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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