R Observatory: Metrics for plotthis version 0.14.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

plotthis

0.14.0Package record

High-Level Plotting Built Upon 'ggplot2' and Other Plotting Packages

1packages depend

11.6Kdownloads / year

46.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Panwen WangCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides high-level API and a wide range of options to create stunning, publication-quality plots effortlessly. It is built upon 'ggplot2' and other plotting packages, and is designed to be easy to use and to work seamlessly with 'ggplot2' objects. It is particularly useful for creating complex plots with multiple layers, facets, and annotations. It also provides a set of functions to create plots for specific types of data, such as Venn diagrams, alluvial diagrams, and phylogenetic trees. The package is designed to be flexible and customizable, and to work well with the 'ggplot2' ecosystem. The API can be found at https://pwwang.github.io/plotthis/reference/index.html.

Changes in 0.14.0

release: CRAN release v0.14.0

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("plotthis", 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("pwwang/plotthis")

Development version from pwwang/plotthis. 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-plotthis

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-plotthis

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-plotthis

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: 11.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-28
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-27
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-06-08

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.14.0

READMEYes · 253 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.14.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 136 (90 internal)
Examples that run: 17%7 run in a plain check · 30 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

11.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,099 · ~32/day · ~966/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

70730 days

2.2K90 days

11.6K1 year

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Also on253 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

pwwang/plotthis ↗Account: pwwang

91Stars

12Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

44Releases

739Commits

4Commit identities

ggplot2plottingsingle-cell

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 739 commits · Last activity 2026-09-06 · +1.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.14.1-1, ahead of CRAN 0.14.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 8

Stars over time

2025-09-27 · 712026-10-08 · 91

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pwwang/plotthis on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-06

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-01-05
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 1 by its own account · at least 1 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-28
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

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

46 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing plotthis adds 51 packages (28 with compiled code, 44 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, patchwork 3.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (18)

circlize ggplot2 rlang dplyr tidyr glue forcats gtable reshape2 stringr scales gridtextmethodspatchwork ggrepel ggnewscale cowplot zoo

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (32)

plotly testthatMatrixalluvialdatasetsComplexHeatmapclusterclustree gglogger ggwordcloud ggalluvial ggVennDiagram ggupset ggpubr ggbeeswarm ggforce ggraph tidygraph ggridges ggmanh qqplotr hexbin igraph iNEXT scattermore sf terra concaveman plotROC OptimalCutpoints proxyC metR

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

VizModules

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Panwen Wang

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.5 (2024)

Releases (24)

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0.14.0Latest
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2026-08-29 · current release · diff ↗
0.13.1
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2026-07-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
LinkedHeatmap
0.12.1
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2026-06-10 · diff ↗
0.12.0
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2026-04-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.11.1
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2026-02-06 · diff ↗
0.10.0
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2026-02-06 · diff ↗
0.9.3
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2026-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
BeeswarmPlot
0.9.0
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2025-12-11 · diff ↗
0.8.2
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2025-11-10 · diff ↗
0.8.1
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2025-10-16 · diff ↗
0.8.0
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2025-09-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
JitterPlot
0.7.4
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2025-08-24 · diff ↗
0.7.3
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2025-07-30 · diff ↗
0.7.2
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2025-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
VelocityPlot
0.7.1
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2025-06-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
SpatialImagePlot, SpatialMasksPlot, SpatialPointsPlot, SpatialShapesPlot

added 5 exports
SpatImagePlot, SpatMasksPlot, SpatPointsPlot, SpatShapesPlot, theme_box

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0.7.0
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2025-05-31 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
PrepareEnrichrResult, PrepareFGSEAResult, PrepareUpsetData, PrepareVennData

added 4 exports
SpatialImagePlot, SpatialMasksPlot, SpatialPointsPlot, SpatialShapesPlot
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.6.1
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2025-04-07 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2025-04-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ManhattanPlot
0.5.2
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2025-03-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
QQPlot
0.5.1
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2025-02-04 · diff ↗
0.5.0
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2025-01-09 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2024-12-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ROCCurve
0.3.6
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2024-11-07 · diff ↗
0.3.5
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2024-11-05
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-05
Total releases: 24 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Additional repositories: bioconductor.org
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 227 KB / 6 files
Download size: 2.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("plotthis")

Format

Wang, P. (2026). plotthis: High-Level Plotting Built Upon 'ggplot2' and Other Plotting Packages (Version 0.14.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.plotthis

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 plotthis version 0.14.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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