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'

397packages dependsuggested by 262

3.4Mdownloads / year

67.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carson SievertCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 4.12.1

Completed the plot_ly() documentation for what happens when type is not specified (#2362).
Removed the dependency on the {lazyeval} package.

Bug fixes

Closed #2483: save_image() no longer embeds Windows file paths directly into Python source passed to reticulate, fixing static image export with Kaleido on Windows.
#2495: ggplotly() now keeps merged legend titles in sync with their legend entries, fixing a case where an upstream change in {rlang}'s hashing could silently reorder combined legend titles (e.g. factor(vs)<br />factor(cyl)) out of step with the entries they label.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 10.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-29
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-30

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-06
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

Earlier advisories (1)Hide earlier advisories (1)

RSEC-2025-1Risk of __proto__ pollution Vulnerability
2.0.2 to 4.11.0, fixed in 4.12.0, 2025-12-23, CVE-2023-46308 Critical 9.8

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.12.1

READMEYes · 406 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.12.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 72 (3 internal)
Examples that run: 67%24 run in a plain check (24 of them under a condition) · 12 never run
Exported functions with examples: 58%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 13%
Help pages citing references: 17%

Also includes 26 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #193 · ~9.2K/day · ~280K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

254.1K30 days

862.1K90 days

3.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on53.7K r2u155 autocran299.5K conda_forge755 bioconda1.4K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

plotly/plotly.r ↗Organization: plotly

2,684Stars

640Forks

716Open issues

46Open PRs

26Releases

3,941Commits

67Commit identities

rggplot2javascriptdata-visualizationd3jsshinyplotlywebgl

3,941 commits · Last activity 2026-07-25 · +0.1% stars, 30d · Discussions: 9 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 82%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 40
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 2,6692026-10-15 · 2,684

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/plotly/plotly.r on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templates

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-01-19
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: CLAUDE.md
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 9 crediting it in the message

Review tools

Copilot code review
Commits: at least 1 accepting its review suggestions

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.59 commits · Jan 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

48 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing plotly adds 63 packages (35 with compiled code, 58 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

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 →

Reverse dependencies

397direct

185indirect

Depends 23 · Imports 374

Suggested by 262

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 349 more dependents and 262 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Carson Sievert

Author, Maintainer since 2.0.2 (2015)

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Contributor · added in 4.9.3

Plotly Technologies Inc.

Copyright holder · added in 4.6.0

Releases (28)

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4.12.1Latest
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-01-10
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orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2020-12-19
check problems were not corrected in time Failed to recognize Quartz-based bitmap devices
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added 3 exports
event_register, event_unregister, orca_serve
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removed 3 exports
get_l, get_x, get_y

added 6 exports
TeX, add_sf, add_table, highlight_key, orca, partial_bundle
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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plotlyProxy, plotlyProxyInvoke, plotly_example
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get_l, get_x, get_y, group2NA
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removed 1 export
knit_print.plotly_figure

added 16 exports
animation_button, animation_opts, animation_slider, api, api_create, api_download_grid, api_download_plot, attrs_selected, highlight, knit_print.api_grid, knit_print.api_grid_local, knit_print.api_plot, plot_dendro, raster2uri, remove_typedarray_polyfill, showRGB
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added 61 exports
add_annotations, add_area, add_bars, add_boxplot, add_choropleth, add_contour, add_data, add_fun, add_heatmap, add_histogram, add_histogram2d, add_histogram2dcontour, add_lines, add_markers, add_mesh, add_paths, add_pie, add_polygons, add_ribbons, add_scattergeo, add_segments, add_surface, add_text, arrange, arrange_, as_widget, colorbar, distinct, distinct_, do and 31 more
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knit_print.plotly

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ggplot_build2, group2NA, layer2traces, paramORdefault

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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: 4.5 MB

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citation("plotly")

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for plotly version 4.12.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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