R Observatory: Metrics for sparkline version 2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sparkline

2.0Package record

'jQuery' Sparkline 'htmlwidget'

4packages dependsuggested by 5

269.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ramnath VaidyanathanCRAN page ↗

Include interactive sparkline charts http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline in all R contexts with the convenience of 'htmlwidgets'.

Install

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

install.packages("sparkline", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-sparkline

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-sparkline

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-sparkline

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

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

Maintainer: ‘Ramnath Vaidyanathan <ramnath.vaidya@gmail.com>’

Found the following (possibly) invalid file URI:
  URI: CONDUCT.md
    From: README.md

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0

READMEYes · 145 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 67%2 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 40%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to Sparkline HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

269.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #706 · ~739/day · ~22.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

17.2K30 days

74.5K90 days

269.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on314 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sparkline adds 26 packages (14 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

htmltools htmlwidgets

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

formattable knitr rmarkdown shiny

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

teal.modules.general tall glossa TimeVizPro

Suggests, most downloaded first

Hmisc reactable kableExtra visNetwork planr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Ramnath Vaidyanathan

Author, Maintainer since 2.0 (2016)

Kent Russell

Author, Contributor

Gareth Watts

Author, Copyright holder

jquery.sparkline library in htmlwidgets/lib, https://github.com/gwatts/jquery.sparkline

jQuery contributors

Contributor, Copyright holder

jQuery library; authors listed in inst/htmlwidgets/lib/jquery/jquery-AUTHORS.txt

jQuery Foundation

Copyright holder

jQuery library

Releases (1)

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
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
2.0Latest
record
2016-11-12 · current release
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-12
Total releases: 1 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 200 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sparkline")

Format

Vaidyanathan, R., Russell, K., Watts, G., jQuery Foundation, , & jQuery contributors, . (2016). sparkline: 'jQuery' Sparkline 'htmlwidget' (Version 2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sparkline

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 sparkline version 2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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