R Observatory: Metrics for vegalite version 0.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vegalite

0.6.1Package record

Tools to Encode Visualizations with the 'Grammar of Graphics'-Like 'Vega-Lite' 'Spec'

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

5.7%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bob RudisCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The 'Vega-Lite' 'JavaScript' framework provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis, akin to 'ggplot' or 'Tableau', that generates complete 'Vega' specifications. Functions exist which enable building a valid 'spec' from scratch or importing a previously created 'spec' file. Functions also exist to export 'spec' files and to generate code which will enable plots to be embedded in properly configured web pages. The default behavior is to generate an 'htmlwidget'.

Changes in 0.6.1

CRAN release

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("vegalite", 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("hrbrmstr/vegalite")

Development version from hrbrmstr/vegalite. 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-vegalite

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-vegalite

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-vegalite

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: ‘Bob Rudis <bob@rudis.net>’

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

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-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 0.6.1

READMEYes · 585 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.6.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 75 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 92%34 run in a plain check · 1 never run · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 3%
Help pages citing references: 71%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to vegalite HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,985 · ~9/day · ~286/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25030 days

71890 days

3.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u10 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hrbrmstr/vegalite ↗Account: hrbrmstrArchived

157Stars

17Forks

16Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

118Commits

8Commit identities

vega-litevega-lite-specwidgetvisualizationrstatsrdatavisualizationdata-visualization

118 commits · Last activity 2018-07-30 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.0.1, ahead of CRAN 0.6.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2024-09-16 · 1562026-07-07 · 157

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/hrbrmstr/vegalite on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Governance and community (2)

Code of conduct

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vegalite adds 37 packages (20 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (11)

jsonlite htmlwidgets htmltools magrittr digesttoolscliprutilswebshot base64stats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat 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 (5)

Bob Rudis

Author, Maintainer since 0.6.1 (2016)

Mike Bostock

Author

D3 library

Jeffrey Heer

Author

Vega-Lite library

Arvind Satyanarayan

Author

Vega-Lite library

Kanit Wongsuphasawat,

Author

Vega-Lite 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
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.6.1Latest
record
2016-03-22 · current release
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-22
Total releases: 1 / 10 yrs
License: AGPL + file LICENSE
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 917 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("vegalite")

Format

Rudis, B., Bostock, M., Heer, J., Satyanarayan, A., & Wongsuphasawat,, K. (2016). vegalite: Tools to Encode Visualizations with the 'Grammar of Graphics'-Like 'Vega-Lite' 'Spec' (Version 0.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vegalite

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 vegalite version 0.6.1 [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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