R Observatory: Metrics for plotannotate version 1.4-0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

plotannotate

1.4-0Package record

Annotate Plots

0packages depend

4.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Wolfgang ViechtbauerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Interactively annotate 'base R graphics' plots with freehand drawing, symbols (points, lines, arrows, rectangles, circles, ellipses), and text. This is useful for teaching, for example to visually explain certain plot elements, and creating quick sketches.

Changes in 1.4-0

improved the circle drawing code, so that either the x- or y-axis distance properly determines the circle radius
added circle and ellipse drawing modes that work like freehand drawing but the nearest circle/ellipse corresponding to the input coordinates is drawn (makes use of the conicfit package)
in type mode, text is immediately shown while typing; can use <ctrl-b> and <ctrl-i> to toggle bold and italic, can use <ctrl-f> to toggle between the sans, mono, and serif font
can now toggle through four different point symbols and three different line types
added a smooth mode for freehand drawing
much faster undo for freehand drawing
info at the top now also shows the drawing mode; can click on the boxes to select the mode / color (or to toggle smooth/snap/symbol)
added option to rescale the visual information via the info argument

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("plotannotate", 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("wviechtb/plotannotate")

Development version from wviechtb/plotannotate. 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-plotannotate

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-plotannotate

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-plotannotate

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: 59 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-12
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4-0

READMEYes · 323 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4-0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,620 · ~13/day · ~389/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24430 days

73390 days

4.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on53 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

wviechtb/plotannotate ↗Account: wviechtb

5Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

26Commits

1Commit identities

plottingrr-package

26 commits · Last activity 2025-08-23 · Default branch at 1.5-0, ahead of CRAN 1.4-0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/wviechtb/plotannotate on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-08-23

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing plotannotate adds 3 packages (1 with compiled code, 462 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: pracma 389 KB, geigen 51 KB, conicfit 22 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (5)

statsgraphicsgrDevicesgridconicfit

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Wolfgang Viechtbauer

Author, Maintainer since 1.4-0 (2025)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4-0Latest
record
2025-08-22 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-08-22
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 13 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("plotannotate")

Format

Viechtbauer, W. (2025). plotannotate: Annotate Plots (Version 1.4-0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.plotannotate

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 plotannotate version 1.4-0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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