R Observatory: Metrics for plothelper version 0.1.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2025-10-15. Its history is shown below.

Reason: check issues were not corrected in time

Details below reflect version 0.1.9, its last release before removal.

plothelper

0.1.9

New Plots Based on 'ggplot2' and Functions to Create Regular Shapes

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jiang Wu10 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An extension to 'ggplot2' and 'magick'. It contains three groups of functions: Functions in the first group draw 'ggplot2' - based plots: geom_shading_bar() draws barplot with shading colors in each bar. geom_rect_cm(), geom_circle_cm() and geom_ellipse_cm() draw rectangles, circles and ellipses with centimeter as their unit. Thus their sizes do not change when the coordinate system or the aspect ratio changes. annotation_transparent_text() draws labels with transparent texts. annotation_shading_polygon() draws irregular polygons with shading colors. Functions in the second group generate coordinates for regular shapes and make linear transformations. Functions in the third group are 'magick' - based functions facilitating image processing.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/plothelper/plothelper_0.1.9.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "plothelper_0.1.9.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.1.9) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("githubwwwjjj/plothelper")

Development version from githubwwwjjj/plothelper. 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-plothelper

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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-plothelper

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 85%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 18%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.6.0ggplot2

Imports (7)

plyr ggfittext magickgridgridExtra scales farver

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jiang Wu

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jiang Wu

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-10-15
check issues were not corrected in time
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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.9
2020-05-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.8
2020-03-13 · diff ↗
0.1.7
2020-02-01 · diff ↗
0.1.6
2019-12-16 · diff ↗
0.1.5
2019-11-16 · diff ↗
0.1.4
2019-08-01 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2019-06-24 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2019-06-09 · diff ↗

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R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.1
2019-04-22 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2019-04-07
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

Total releases: 10
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("plothelper")

Format

Wu, J. (n.d.). plothelper: New Plots Based on 'ggplot2' and Functions to Create Regular Shapes (Version 0.1.9) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 13, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=plothelper

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for plothelper version 0.1.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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