R Observatory: Metrics for shadowtext version 0.1.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shadowtext

0.1.6Package record

Shadow Text Grob and Layer

4packages dependsuggested by 2

267.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Guangchuang YuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implement shadowtextGrob() for 'grid' and geom_shadowtext() layer for 'ggplot2'. These functions create/draw text grob with background shadow.

Changes in 0.1.6

add geom_shadowtext_interactive() (2025-08-24, Sun, #18)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("shadowtext", 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("GuangchuangYu/shadowtext")

Development version from GuangchuangYu/shadowtext. 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-shadowtext

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-shadowtext

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-shadowtext

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: 1.9 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 0.1.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 14%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 43%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

shadowtext introduction

How these are measured

Downloads

267.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #737 · ~732/day · ~22.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

18.7K30 days

68.8K90 days

267.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1K r2u7 autocran58.4K conda_forge174 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

guangchuangyu/shadowtext ↗Account: GuangchuangYu

42Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

56Commits

6Commit identities

56 commits · Last activity 2025-09-01 · +2.4% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 44
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-07-07 · 372026-10-17 · 42

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/guangchuangyu/shadowtext on 2026-10-11.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing shadowtext adds 55 packages (29 with compiled code, 44 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, fontLiberation 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (7)

ggiraph ggplot2gridscales S7 purrr rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown prettydoc

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

3indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

SUMMER ResIN lipidomeR tastypie

Suggests, most downloaded first

meme SmCCNet

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Guangchuang Yu

Shuangbin Xu

Contributor · added in 0.1.6

Releases (15)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.6Latest
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2025-08-24 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
GeomInteractiveShadowtext, geom_shadowtext_interactive
0.1.5
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2025-06-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.4
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2024-07-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.3
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2024-01-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.2
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2022-04-22 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.1
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2022-01-10 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2021-12-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
GeomShadowtext
0.0.9
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2021-09-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
GeomShadowText
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.0.8
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2021-04-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Show 9 earlier eventsHide 9 earlier events

0.0.7
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2019-11-06 · diff ↗
0.0.6
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2019-09-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
element_shadowtext
0.0.5
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2019-05-29 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.0.4
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2018-12-07 · diff ↗
0.0.3
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2018-09-29 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.0.2
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2017-10-30
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-10-30
Total releases: 15 / 9 yrs
License: Artistic-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 170 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("shadowtext")

Format

Yu, G., & Xu, S. (2025). shadowtext: Shadow Text Grob and Layer (Version 0.1.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.shadowtext

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for shadowtext version 0.1.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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