R Observatory: Metrics for plotly version 4.12.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

plotly

4.12.1

Create Interactive Web Graphics via 'plotly.js'

610packages depend

3.3Mdownloads / year

67.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Carson SievertFirst published 2015-11-1728 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create interactive web graphics from 'ggplot2' graphs and/or a custom interface to the (MIT-licensed) JavaScript library 'plotly.js' inspired by the grammar of graphics.

Install

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

install.packages("plotly", 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("plotly/plotly.R")

Development version from plotly/plotly.R. 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-plotly

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

# 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-plotly

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-plotly

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 10.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.77

67.8%

Coverage · measured lines

99%

Documentation · exports

21

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-30
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-06
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 406 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 86%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 13%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

3.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #208 · ~8.9K/day · ~270.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

265.4K30 days

784.3K90 days

3.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on33.4K r2u95 autocran256.5K conda_forge743 bioconda157 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ plotly/plotly.r

2,675Stars

641Forks

712Open issues

46Open PRs

26Releases

3,941Commits

67Contributors

rggplot2javascriptdata-visualizationd3jsshinyplotlywebgl

3,941 commits · Last activity 2026-07-25 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 2,6692026-08-12 · 2,675

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/plotly/plotly.r on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-01-19

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-01-19

Evidence

claude: on or before 2026-01-19 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

48 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0ggplot2

Imports (20)

toolsscales httr jsonlite magrittr digest viridisLite base64enc htmltools htmlwidgets tidyr RColorBrewer dplyr vctrs tibble rlang crosstalk purrr data.table promises

LinkingTo (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Carson Sievert

Author, Maintainer

Authors (7)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Contributors (1)

Salim Brüggemann

Contributor · added in 4.9.3

Copyright holders (1)

Plotly Technologies Inc.

Copyright holder · added in 4.6.0

Package Timeline

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

4.12.1Latest
2026-07-22 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
4.12.0
2026-01-24 · diff ↗
4.11.0
2025-06-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
4.10.4
2024-01-13 · diff ↗
4.10.3
2023-10-22 · diff ↗
4.10.2
2023-06-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
4.10.1
2022-11-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
4.10.0
2021-10-09 · diff ↗
4.9.4.1
2021-06-18 · diff ↗
4.9.4
2021-06-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Show 26 earlier events

4.9.3
2021-01-10 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-01-10
4.9.2.2
2020-12-19 · diff ↗
orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2020-12-19
check problems were not corrected in time Failed to recognize Quartz-based bitmap devices
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
4.9.2.1
2020-04-04 · diff ↗
4.9.2
2020-02-12 · diff ↗
4.9.1
2019-11-07 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
4.9.0
2019-04-10 · diff ↗
4.8.0
2018-07-20 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
4.7.1
2017-07-29 · diff ↗
4.7.0
2017-05-28 · diff ↗
4.6.0
2017-04-25 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
4.5.6
2016-11-12 · diff ↗
4.5.2
2016-09-26 · diff ↗
3.6.0
2016-05-18 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
3.4.13
2016-04-12 · diff ↗
3.4.1
2016-03-14 · diff ↗
2.0.16
2015-12-20 · diff ↗
2.0.3
2015-11-25 · diff ↗
2.0.2
2015-11-17
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-11-17
Total releases: 28 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 534 KB / 4 files
Download size: 4.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics Web Technologies and Services

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Format

Sievert, C., Plotly Technologies Inc., Brüggemann, S., Chamberlain, S., Corvellec, M., Despouy, P., Hocking, T., Parmer, C., & Ram, K. (2026). plotly: Create Interactive Web Graphics via 'plotly.js' (Version 4.12.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.plotly

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for plotly version 4.12.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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