R Observatory: Metrics for socviz version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

socviz

2.0.0Package record

Utilities and Data Sets for Data Visualization

0packages dependsuggested by 2

16.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kieran HealyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Supporting materials for a course and book on data visualization. It contains utility functions for graphs and several sample data sets. See Healy (2019) <ISBN 978-0691181622>.

Changes in 2.0.0

New version of package to accompany the second edition of _Data Visualization: a practical introduction_
Added ACS and election datasets.
Removed some defunct datasets and functions.
Fixed issues with documentation.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("socviz", 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("kjhealy/socviz")

Development version from kjhealy/socviz. 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-socviz

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-socviz

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-socviz

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-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-24
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-20
OK13 OK2026-08-27
NOTE13 NOTE2026-05-10
WARNING12 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-05-09

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NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.0

READMEYes · 191 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 2.0.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 40 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 82%9 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

16.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,001 · ~45/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.9K30 days

4.5K90 days

16.4K1 year

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Also on134 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

kjhealy/socviz ↗Account: kjhealy

200Stars

535Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

308Commits

1Commit identities

308 commits · Last activity 2026-08-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.0.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.0.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 37
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-08-31 · 1932026-09-08 · 200

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kjhealy/socviz on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-21

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing socviz adds 25 packages (13 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.5

Imports (6)

ggplot2graphicsgridmagrittr systemfonts tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

gompertztrunc RplotterPkg

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Kieran Healy

Releases (4)

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2.0.0Latest
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2026-08-21 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
freq_tab, lay_out, setup_course_notes

added 2 exports
theme_socviz, theme_socviz_map
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
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2
record
2020-06-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1
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2020-02-19 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.0
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2019-04-23
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-23
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.5
Bundled data: 4.2 MB / 29 files
Download size: 4.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("socviz")

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

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 socviz version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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