R Observatory: Metrics for highdir version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

highdir

0.6.0Package record

Unified Data Visualization Framework for Dynamic and Static Graphics

0packages depend

1.5Kdownloads / year

77.4%test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yusman KamaleriCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a unified API for creating data visualizations across dynamic and static rendering modes. Visualizations are defined once using a specification object and can be rendered with 'highcharter', 'ggplot2', or other supported packages without modifying user code. The package supports declarative and layered workflows, reusable themes and colour palettes, optional 'JavaScript' enhancements, export tools, and interactive exploration through 'shiny' applications.

Changes in 0.6.0

Add hd_reset_theme() function (#21)
Add venn diagram with gg_venn or hc_venn backends.
New feature added to support for

```r

hd_make(mode = "dynamic")

hd_make(mode = "static")

or equivalent functions

hd(mode = "dynamic")

hd(mode = "static")

```

dynamic replaces the previous highcharter backend and static replaces the previous ggplot2 backend.

Renamed the stack argument to facet in hd_geom_stacked_column() to avoid ambiguity with R's partial matching behavior (#27).

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Improved the static implementation of hd_geom_ranked_bar() by switching from ggplot2::geom_bar(stat = "identity") to ggplot2::geom_col(). This does not change the visual output but clarifies that ranked bars are drawn from pre-computed values.

Breaking changes

Introduced a new mode argument with values "dynamic" and "static" to replace backend-specific values.
The backend argument in hd_make() and hd() functions is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
Existing code using:

```r

hd_make(backend = "highcharter")

hd_make(backend = "ggplot2")

or equivalent functions

hd(backend = "highcharter")

hd(backend = "ggplot2")

```

continues to work but produces a deprecation warning.

The stack argument in hd_geom_stacked_column() has been renamed to facet. Update existing code to use facet instead of stack.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("highdir", 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("folkehelsestats/highdir")

Development version from folkehelsestats/highdir. 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-highdir

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-highdir

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-highdir

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

1ERROR12OK

Check messages

ERRORwhether package can be installedr-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Installation failed.
See ‘/data/localhost/ripley/R/packages/tests-clang/highdir.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-24
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08

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OK7 OK2026-05-28

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.0

READMEYes · 401 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 54 (17 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%25 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 79%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 97%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

Accessibility: writing descriptions for figures HTML
Geom examples HTML
Quick start HTML
Specifications

How these are measured

Downloads

1.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,076 · ~4/day · ~124/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20530 days

72090 days

1.5K1 year

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Also on28 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

folkehelsestats/highdir ↗Organization: folkehelsestats

0Stars

0Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

421Commits

2Commit identities

421 commits · Last activity 2026-08-22 · Default branch at 0.6.1, ahead of CRAN 0.6.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Releases over time

2026-05-29 · 12026-08-04 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/folkehelsestats/highdir on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

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

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing highdir adds 78 packages (43 with compiled code, 75 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

highcharter ggplot2 htmlwidgets (>= 1.6.0)jsonlite rlang viridis (>= 0.6.0)shinytoolsutilsstatsscales (>= 1.4.0)lifecycle

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

sf maps webshot2 bslib testthat withr data.table knitr eulerr ggVennDiagram rmarkdown tibble

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Yusman Kamaleri

Author, Maintainer since 0.5.0 (2026)

Releases (2)

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0.6.0Latest
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2026-07-31 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
list_backends

added 9 exports
hd_geom_venn, hd_reset_theme, hd_spec_venn, hd_venn_df, hd_venn_intersect, hd_venn_set, hd_venn_sets_from_spec, list_modes, venn_df_to_list
0.5.0
record
2026-05-27
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-27
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.7 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("highdir")

Format

Kamaleri, Y. (2026). highdir: Unified Data Visualization Framework for Dynamic and Static Graphics (Version 0.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.highdir

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for highdir version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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