R Observatory: Metrics for highcharter version 0.9.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

highcharter

0.9.5Package record

A Wrapper for the 'Highcharts' Library

7packages dependsuggested by 6

706.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua KunstCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A wrapper for the 'Highcharts' library including shortcut functions to plot R objects. 'Highcharts' https://www.highcharts.com/ is a charting library offering numerous chart types with a simple configuration syntax.

Changes in 0.9.5

Bugs

Fixed download_map_data to prevent 403 Forbidden errors when fetching data (fixes CRAN Package Checks and resolves #842).
Renamed internal helper function hchart.pca to hchart_pca to resolve an unregistered S3 method mismatch NOTE.
Uses page_rank instead of deprecated page.rank function.
Converts igraph membership to vector to avoid data frame coercion errors.
Replace class() == comparisons with inherits() in hc_yAxis_multiples, hc_xAxis_multiples, and hc_zAxis_multiples to fix CRAN NOTE.
Replace deprecated @docType "package" with "_PACKAGE" sentinel in highcharter-package.R.
Fixed missing or moved URLs.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("highcharter", 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("jbkunst/highcharter")

Development version from jbkunst/highcharter. 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-highcharter

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-highcharter

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-highcharter

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  highcharter/R/helpers.R (.Names: 1)
  highcharter/R/highcharts-api-add.R (.Names: 7)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-10-25
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-10-24
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07

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OK13 OK2026-05-21
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-20
OK13 OK2026-04-30
ERROR5 OK, 9 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.5

READMEYes · 167 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 140includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 92%84 run in a plain check · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 79%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 1%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

706.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,398 · ~1.9K/day · ~58.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

6.5K30 days

19.7K90 days

706.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on821 r2u4 autocran4.6K conda_forge110 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

jbkunst/highcharter ↗Account: jbkunst

740Stars

156Forks

40Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

1,249Commits

34Commit identities

rhighchartsvisualizationcranhtmlwidgetswrapperrstatsshiny

1,249 commits · Last activity 2026-09-28 · +0.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.12.6.1, ahead of CRAN 0.9.5 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 568
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 14

Stars over time

2025-10-24 · 7332026-10-09 · 740

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jbkunst/highcharter on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-28 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-28

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

32 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing highcharter adds 57 packages (35 with compiled code, 50 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (20)

htmlwidgets magrittr purrr rlist assertthat zoo dplyr tibble stringr broom xts quantmod tidyr htmltools jsonlite igraph lubridate yaml rlang rjson

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

knitr rmarkdownsurvivalggplot2 httr viridisLite shinyMASSgapminder forecast geojsonio testthat covr spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

0indirect

Imports 7

Suggested by 6

Show all 13 packagesHide all 13 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

RKorAPClient UnalR AovBay ggfootball shinymrp T2Qv highdir

Suggests, most downloaded first

xplorerr shinyjqui vistime maidr planr bones

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (15)

Joshua Kunst

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

Nuno Agostinho

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

hchart.survfit, densities and hc_add_series_scatter

Jonathan Armond

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

mutate_mapping bugfix

David Breuer

Contributor · added in 0.8.2

download_map_data quiet parameter

Paul Campbell

Contributor · added in 0.9.4

additional proxy methods

Adline Dsilva

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

First version Matrix heatmap

Eduardo Flores

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

First version hc_add_series_df_tidy

Martin John Hadley

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

hc_add_event_point improvement

Dean Kilfoyle

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

First version hc_add_series_boxplot

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Christian Minich

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

hcaes mutate_mapping improvement

Danton Noriega

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

hcaes_

Bart Oortwijn

Contributor · added in 0.8.2

rjson option, hc_add_yAxis, and GH issues collaborator

Kamil Slowikowski

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Mauricio Vargas

Contributor · added in 0.8.2

tests and gh-actions

Michael Yan

Contributor · added in 0.8.2

Motivational example for treemap/sunburst data helper

Releases (9)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.5Latest
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2026-04-22 · current release · 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
0.9.4
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2022-01-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 18 exports
create_axis, df_to_annotations_labels, hc_loading, hc_xAxis_multiples, hc_zAxis_multiples, hcpxy_add_point, hcpxy_add_series, hcpxy_loading, hcpxy_redraw, hcpxy_remove_point, hcpxy_remove_series, hcpxy_set_data, hcpxy_update, hcpxy_update_point, hcpxy_update_series, highchartOutputZ, highchartProxy, renderHighchartZ
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.8.2
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2020-07-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 23 exports
dash_styles, fix_1_length_data, get_hc_series_from_df, hc_accessibility, hc_add_series_boxplot, hc_add_series_df, hc_add_series_flags, hc_add_series_labels_values, hc_add_series_ohlc, hc_add_series_scatter, hc_add_series_times_values, hc_add_series_treemap, hc_add_series_ts, hc_add_series_xts, hc_annotationsOptions, hc_defs, hcbar, hcdensity, hchist, hcpie, hcts, highchart_ct, random_id

added 11 exports
data_to_boxplot, data_to_hierarchical, data_to_sankey, dt_tstp, hc_add_yAxis, hc_caption, hc_labels, hc_theme_alone, hc_theme_bloom, hc_theme_hcrt, hc_theme_sparkline_vb
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.7.0
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2019-01-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
list.parse2, list.parse3

added 17 exports
hc_accessibility, hc_add_dependency, hc_add_dependency_fa, hc_add_event_point, hc_add_event_series, hc_boost, hc_responsive, hc_theme_ggplot2, hc_theme_superheroes, hc_zAxis, hcaes_, hcaes_string, hcparcords, hctreemap2, highchart_ct, highchartzero, tooltip_chart
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.5.0
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2017-01-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
colorize_vector, get_hc_options_from_df, hc_add_series_density, hc_rm_serie, hcwaffle

added 23 exports
download_map_data, fix_1_length_data, get_data_from_map, hc_add_annotation, hc_add_annotations, hc_annotationsOptions, hc_size, hc_theme_elementary, hc_theme_ffx, hc_theme_monokai, hc_theme_tufte, hc_theme_tufte2, hcaes, hciconarray, hcmap, hcspark, hctreemap, highchartOutput2, is.hexcolor, is.highchart, mutate_mapping, random_id, renderHighchart2
0.4.0
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2016-07-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 13 exports
hc_add_serie, hc_add_serie_flags, hc_add_serie_labels_values, hc_add_serie_map, hc_add_serie_ohlc, hc_add_serie_scatter, hc_add_serie_times_values, hc_add_serie_treemap, hc_add_serie_ts, hc_add_serie_xts, hc_demo, hc_get_colors, hc_get_dash_styles

added 26 exports
color_classes, color_stops, colorize, create_yaxis, dash_styles, get_hc_options_from_df, get_hc_series_from_df, hc_add_series_boxplot, hc_add_series_density, hc_add_series_df, hc_add_series_list, hc_elementId, hc_motion, hc_theme_sparkline, hc_yAxis_multiples, hcbar, hcboxplot, hcdensity, hchist, hcpie, hcts, hcwaffle, highcharts_demo, hw_grid, list_parse, list_parse2

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R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.3.0
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2016-03-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
colorize_vector, export_hc, hc_colors, hc_pane, hc_theme_flat, hc_theme_flatdark, hc_theme_ft, hc_theme_smpl, hex_to_rgba, tags, tooltip_table
0.2.0
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2016-02-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
hc_add_serie_ts2

added 39 exports
%>%, JS, datetime_to_timestamp, fa_icon, fa_icon_mark, hc_add_serie_flags, hc_add_serie_map, hc_add_serie_ohlc, hc_add_serie_times_values, hc_add_serie_xts, hc_add_series, hc_add_series_flags, hc_add_series_labels_values, hc_add_series_map, hc_add_series_ohlc, hc_add_series_scatter, hc_add_series_times_values, hc_add_series_treemap, hc_add_series_ts, hc_add_series_xts, hc_annotations, hc_defs, hc_demo, hc_drilldown, hc_mapNavigation, hc_navigator, hc_rangeSelector, hc_rm_series, hc_scrollbar, hc_series and 9 more
0.1.0
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2016-01-12
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-12
Total releases: 9 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 346 KB / 14 files
Download size: 1.0 MB

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Kunst, J., Agostinho, N., Armond, J., Breuer, D., Campbell, P., Dsilva, A., Flores, E., Hadley, M. J., Kilfoyle, D., Minich, C., Noriega, D., Oortwijn, B., Slowikowski, K., Vargas, M., & Yan, M. (2026). highcharter: A Wrapper for the 'Highcharts' Library (Version 0.9.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.highcharter

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