R Observatory: Metrics for vbracket version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vbracket

1.4.0Package record

Custom Legends with Statistical Comparison Brackets

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yoshiaki SatoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Add publication-quality custom legends with vertical brackets. Designed for displaying statistical comparisons between groups, commonly used in scientific publications for showing significance levels. Features include adaptive positioning, automatic bracket spacing for overlapping comparisons, font family inheritance, and support for asterisks, p-values, or custom labels. Compatible with 'ggplot2' graphics.

Install

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

install.packages("vbracket", 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("h20gg702/vbracket")

Development version from h20gg702/vbracket. 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-vbracket

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-vbracket

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-vbracket

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: 1.5 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 1.4.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.4.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11 (3 internal)
Examples that run: 33%2 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,256 · ~6/day · ~186/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20330 days

51690 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on74 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

h20gg702/vbracket ↗Account: h20gg702

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

18Commits

2Commit identities

18 commits · Last activity 2026-03-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-01-23 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/h20gg702/vbracket on 2026-10-21.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vbracket adds 17 packages (7 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

ggplot2grid

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

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 (1)

Yoshiaki Sato

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2026)

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2026-01-07
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-07
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 16 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("vbracket")

Format

Sato, Y. (2026). vbracket: Custom Legends with Statistical Comparison Brackets (Version 1.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vbracket

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 vbracket version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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