R Observatory: Metrics for thisplot version 0.4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

thisplot

0.4.3Package record

Utility Functions for Plotting

0packages depend

7.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Meng XuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides utility functions for plotting. Includes functions for color manipulation, plot customization, panel size control, data optimization for plots, and layout adjustments.

Changes in 0.4.3

**feat**:
Add major_grid() for reusable major-grid control.
Let block heatmap annotations control border colour and line width.
**fix**:
Declare ComplexHeatmap as an imported dependency so heatmap examples run on clean check systems.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("thisplot", 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("mengxu98/thisplot")

Development version from mengxu98/thisplot. 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-thisplot

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-thisplot

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-thisplot

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

1NOTE12OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-oldrel-macos-arm64

2026-08-02 00:38:47.009 R[69077:249588] XType: Using static font registry.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-25
ERROR11 OK, 3 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.3

READMEYes · 3,046 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 65 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%36 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 3%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,508 · ~19/day · ~592/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43030 days

1.3K90 days

7.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on109 r2u5 autocran434 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

mengxu98/thisplot ↗Account: mengxu98

2Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

106Commits

2Commit identities

106 commits · Last activity 2026-10-17 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.4.6, ahead of CRAN 0.4.3 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 31
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-04-27 · 12026-08-10 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mengxu98/thisplot 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-26 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-26

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

renv

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

29 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing thisplot adds 48 packages (28 with compiled code, 55 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, igraph 4.8 MB. 1 more not on CRAN is not measured.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (19)

cli ComplexHeatmap dendextend ggforce geomtextpath ggrepel ggnewscale ggplot2grDevicesgridgtable igraphmethodspatchwork proxyC reshape2statsthisutils (>= 0.4.3)utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

circlize dplyr forcats ggalluvial ggupset ggVennDiagram htmltoolsMatrixpng purrr ragg scales stringr testthat tidyr venny

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Meng Xu

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.1 (2025)

Haoliang Zhu

Author · added in 0.4.0

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.4.3Latest
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2026-08-01 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
heatmap_border_color, heatmap_border_enabled, heatmap_border_gp, heatmap_border_size_value, heatmap_border_spec, heatmap_legend_border, major_grid
0.4.0
record
2026-05-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
DimDataPlot
0.3.8
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2026-04-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
annotate_quadrants, clip_symmetric_range, jitter_highlighted_points, to_percent
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.7
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2026-04-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
GraphPlot, compute_velocity_on_grid
0.3.6
record
2026-03-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
check_ci_env

added 8 exports
annotation_block_fill_graphics, annotation_block_graphics, annotation_graphics, build_heatmap_annotation, cluster_within_group2, heatmap_fixsize, heatmap_rendersize, normalize_drawable
0.3.5
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2026-02-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
StatPlot, geom_alluvial, geom_alluvial_label, geom_alluvial_text, geom_sankey, geom_sankey_bump, geom_sankey_label, geom_sankey_text, make_long, theme_alluvial, theme_sankey, theme_sankey_bump
0.3.2
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2026-01-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_namespace_fun
0.3.1
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2025-12-17
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-12-17
Total releases: 8 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 36 KB / 2 files
Download size: 129 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("thisplot")

Format

Xu, M., & Zhu, H. (2026). thisplot: Utility Functions for Plotting (Version 0.4.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.thisplot

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for thisplot version 0.4.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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