R Observatory: Metrics for timevis version 2.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

timevis

2.1.0

Create Interactive Timeline Visualizations in R

1packages dependsuggested by 2

26.1Kdownloads / year

8.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dean AttaliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Create rich and fully interactive timeline visualizations. Timelines can be included in Shiny apps or R markdown documents. 'timevis' includes an extensive API to manipulate a timeline after creation, and supports getting data out of the visualization into R. Based on the 'vis.js' Timeline JavaScript library.

Changes in 2.1.0

Add functions zoomIn() and zoomOut()
List-columns can now be passed to timevis() in the data or groups dataframe, to support nestedGroups and any other parameters that may require nested lists (#11)
Boolean values can be passed to timevis() in the data or groups dataframe, to support subgroupStack = TRUE option (#117)
Simplify documentation and augment with more examples

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("timevis", 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("daattali/timevis")

Development version from daattali/timevis. 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-timevis

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-timevis

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-timevis

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: 1.2 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 2.1.0

READMEYes · 1,611 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 22 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%19 run in a plain check (19 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 5%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

26.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,967 · ~72/day · ~2.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7K30 days

4.6K90 days

26.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on221 r2u6 autocran695 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

daattali/timevis ↗Account: daattali

685Stars

154Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

6Releases

170Commits

6Commit identities

shinyshiny-rrrstatsr-package

170 commits · Last activity 2024-08-18 · +0.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.1.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.1.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 30%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 13

Stars over time

2025-10-03 · 6702026-09-28 · 685

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/daattali/timevis 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

Governance and community (2)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors, Patreon

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

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 timevis adds 38 packages (21 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (7)

htmltools htmlwidgets jsonlite magrittrmethodsrmarkdown shiny

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

lubridate testthat shinydisconnect

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tidyCDISC

Suggests, most downloaded first

shinyscreenshot shiny.telemetry

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Dean Attali

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2016)

R interface

Almende B.V.

Author, Copyright holder

vis.js Timeline library, https://visjs.github.io/vis-timeline/docs/timeline/

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.1.0Latest
record
2022-11-03 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
zoomIn, zoomOut
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.0.0
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2021-12-20 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
record
2020-09-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
setCurrentTime, setCustomTime
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.5
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2019-01-16 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.4
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2016-09-17 · diff ↗
0.3
record
2016-08-30 · diff ↗

Show 3 earlier eventsHide 3 earlier events

0.2
record
2016-08-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
%>%, setGroups
0.1
record
2016-07-25
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-07-25
Total releases: 8 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 0.6 KB / 2 files
Download size: 505 KB

Appears in task views

Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("timevis")

Format

Attali, D., & Almende B.V., . (2022). timevis: Create Interactive Timeline Visualizations in R (Version 2.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.timevis

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 timevis version 2.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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