R Observatory: Metrics for hexSticker version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hexSticker

0.5.1Package record

Create Hexagon Sticker in R

2packages dependsuggested by 4

20.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Guangchuang YuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Helper functions for creating reproducible hexagon sticker purely in R.

Changes in 0.5.1

fix border line missing issue when border size is large (2026-01-21, Wed)
use linewidth to fix warning (2025-09-20, Sat, #190)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("hexSticker", 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("GuangchuangYu/hexSticker")

Development version from GuangchuangYu/hexSticker. 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-hexsticker

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-hexSticker

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-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
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 13%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 75%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

20.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,333 · ~55/day · ~1.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3K30 days

3.3K90 days

20.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on444 r2u39 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

guangchuangyu/hexsticker ↗Account: GuangchuangYu

813Stars

180Forks

17Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

470Commits

98Commit identities

stickershexagon-stickerrstatsggplot2visualizationlogo

470 commits · Last activity 2026-10-13 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-09 · 7792026-10-13 · 813

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/guangchuangyu/hexsticker on 2026-10-11.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

An outside contributor's pull request to this repository was written with an AI coding tool.

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2025-09-17, 1 from forks

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing hexSticker adds 66 packages (34 with compiled code, 56 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, magick 4.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (8)

ggimage ggplot2grDeviceshexbin rlang showtextstatssysfonts

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

magick

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

8indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

oeli normfluodbf

Suggests, most downloaded first

spanishoddata NHSRplotthedots polaroid rtlr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Guangchuang Yu

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Robert Corty

Contributor · added in 0.4.6

Laurent Gatto

Contributor

Sebastian Gibb

Contributor · added in 0.4.1

Thomas Neitmann

Contributor · added in 0.4.7

Johannes Rainer

Contributor

Releases (11)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.1Latest
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2026-01-21 · current release · diff ↗
0.5.0
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2025-09-18 · diff ↗
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
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.9
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2020-12-05 · diff ↗
0.4.7
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2020-06-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.6
record
2019-05-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
hexagon
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4.5
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2019-01-10 · diff ↗
0.4.4
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2018-06-22 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.4.3
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2018-03-05 · diff ↗
0.4.2
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2017-12-05 · diff ↗
0.4.1
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2017-06-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
geom_url
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.0
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2017-03-30
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-03-30
Total releases: 11 / 9 yrs
License: Artistic-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 1.0 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("hexSticker")

Format

Yu, G., Corty, R., Gatto, L., Gibb, S., Neitmann, T., & Rainer, J. (2026). hexSticker: Create Hexagon Sticker in R (Version 0.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hexSticker

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hexSticker version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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