R Observatory: Metrics for rphylopic version 1.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rphylopic

1.7.0Package record

Get Silhouettes of Organisms from PhyloPic

0packages dependsuggested by 2

9.5Kdownloads / year

93.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by William GeartyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Work with the PhyloPic Web Service (http://api-docs.phylopic.org/v2/) to fetch silhouette images of organisms. Includes functions for adding silhouettes to both base R plots and ggplot2 plots.

Changes in 1.7.0

PhyloPic API responses and parsed images are now cached in a temporary in-memory R environment to speed up repeated calls (#123)
The cache is cleared when the R session ends
The cache can also be manually cleared using clear_phylopic_cache()
Added support for using PhyloPic silhouettes as vertices when plotting {igraph} networks via a new "phylopic" vertex shape, registered automatically when both packages are loaded (#115, #118)
Added new "Network plots" sections to both advanced vignettes, demonstrating the new {igraph} integration in base R and the use of geom_phylopic() inside {ggraph} plots

Deprecation:

The "ysize" and "size" arguments/aesthetics are now fully deprecated in favor of "height" and "width" arguments/aesthetics. These arguments/aesthetics will be removed in a future version of rphylopic.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rphylopic", 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("palaeoverse/rphylopic")

Development version from palaeoverse/rphylopic. 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-rphylopic

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-rphylopic

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-rphylopic

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: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.7.0

READMEYes · 279 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.7.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 21 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 7%1 run in a plain check · 13 never run
Exported functions with examples: 72%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 61%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

9.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,814 · ~26/day · ~793/mo

Releases R versions

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95030 days

2.5K90 days

9.5K1 year

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Also on143 r2u12 autocran353 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

palaeoverse/rphylopic ↗Organization: palaeoverse

97Stars

13Forks

11Open issues

1Open PRs

13Releases

383Commits

11Commit identities

phylopicrstatssilhouetteggplot2base-r

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 383 commits · Last activity 2026-10-02 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.7.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.7.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 6

Stars over time

2025-09-25 · 962026-07-07 · 97

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

15 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/palaeoverse/rphylopic 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 (3)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-22

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

codemeta.jsonZenodo

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (2)

Lint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rphylopic adds 40 packages (23 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (16)

ape ggplot2 jsonlitegridgraphicspng grImport2 (>= 0.3.3)rsvg httr httpcache curlmethodslifecycle pbapply knitr scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

testthat vdiffr rmarkdown covr phytools palaeoverse ggtree deeptime palmerpenguins maps sf igraph ggraph devtools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

mpmaggregate rmacrostrat

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

William Gearty

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2023) · added in 1.0.0

Lewis A. Jones

Author · added in 1.0.0

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor

David L. Miller

Contributor · added in 1.6.0

Martin R. Smith

Contributor · added in 1.6.0

Previously maintained by Scott Chamberlain (0.2.0 to 0.3.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

David Miller

no longer listed · 0.2.0 to 1.5.0

Releases (13)

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1.7.0Latest
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2026-07-08 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
clear_phylopic_cache
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.6.0
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2025-11-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
add_phylopic_tree
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.5.0
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2024-09-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
scale_height_continuous, scale_width_continuous
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4.0
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2024-04-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
add_phylopic_legend
1.3.0
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2023-12-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
resolve_phylopic
1.2.2
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2023-10-28 · diff ↗
1.2.1
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2023-10-11 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2023-08-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
browse_phylopic, phylopic_key_glyph
1.1.1
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2023-07-08 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2023-06-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
phylopic_inset

added 4 exports
flip_phylopic, geom_phylopic, recolor_phylopic, rotate_phylopic
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.0
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2023-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 21 exports
get_names, image_count, image_data, image_get, image_list, image_timerange, name_get, name_images, name_minsuptaxa, name_search, name_taxonomy, name_taxonomy_many, name_taxonomy_sources, nameset_get, nameset_taxonomy, plot_phylopic_base, save_png, search_images, search_text, theme_phylo_blank2, ubio_get

added 6 exports
get_attribution, get_phylopic, get_uuid, phylopic_inset, pick_phylopic, save_phylopic
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.0
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.0
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2018-11-19
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-11-19
Total releases: 13 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI · relicensed from MIT + file LICENSE in 1.0.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 4.6 MB

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Paleontology

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rphylopic")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1111/2041-210x.14221.

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 rphylopic version 1.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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