R Observatory: Metrics for sketch version 1.1.20.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sketch

1.1.20.3Package record

Interactive Sketches

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

97.2%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chun Fung KwokCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Creates static / animated / interactive visualisations embeddable in R Markdown documents. It implements an R-to-JavaScript transpiler and enables users to write JavaScript applications using the syntax of R.

Install

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

install.packages("sketch", 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("kcf-jackson/sketch")

Development version from kcf-jackson/sketch. 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-sketch

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-sketch

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-sketch

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘ext-annotate_expr.R’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'ext-annotate_expr.R'

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Chun Fung Kwok <jkwok@svi.edu.au>’

The BugReports field in DESCRIPTION has
  https://github.com/kcf-jackson/sketch
which should likely be
  https://github.com/kcf-jackson/sketch/issues
instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.20.3

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 54 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 76%26 run in a plain check · 8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 31%
Help pages citing references: 2%

Vignettes (1)

An introduction to the `sketch` package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,786 · ~8/day · ~242/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24530 days

76990 days

2.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on71 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

kcf-jackson/sketch ↗Account: kcf-jackson

126Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

285Commits

2Commit identities

rvisualisationtranspilerjsjavascript

285 commits · Last activity 2024-02-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 32
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-09 · 1252026-07-07 · 126

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kcf-jackson/sketch on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sketch adds 35 packages (23 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (11)

magrittr rlang purrr rstudioapi glue htmltools base64enc jsonlite shinymethodsV8

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat covr knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Chun Fung Kwok

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.3 (2020)

Kate Saunders

Contributor

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.20.3Latest
record
2024-02-02 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.19
record
2022-10-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.17
record
2021-10-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 15 exports
bundle, combine_rules, compile_active, const, default_2_deparsers, dp, flatten_filelist, get_dependencies, license_info, local, read_multilines, safeguard, split_rules, test_sketch, websocket
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.3
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2020-10-08
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-10-08
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2.0)
Download size: 2.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sketch")

Format

Kwok, C. F., & Saunders, K. (2024). sketch: Interactive Sketches (Version 1.1.20.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sketch

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 sketch version 1.1.20.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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