R Observatory: Metrics for vegawidget version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vegawidget

0.5.0Package record

'Htmlwidget' for 'Vega' and 'Vega-Lite'

2packages dependsuggested by 1

12.6Kdownloads / year

47.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ian LyttleCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

'Vega' and 'Vega-Lite' parse text in 'JSON' notation to render chart-specifications into 'HTML'. This package is used to facilitate the rendering. It also provides a means to interact with signals, events, and datasets in a 'Vega' chart using 'JavaScript' or 'Shiny'.

Changes in 0.5.0

Features

Update Vega-Lite version to 5.16.3 (#29)

Fixes

Update vw_handler_add_effect() to be compliant with upcoming changes in {glue} (#227)

Documentation

Clarify that promises (indeed anything without the class vegaspec) needs to be converted into a vegaspec or vegawidget to be rendered (#216)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("vegawidget", 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("vegawidget/vegawidget")

Development version from vegawidget/vegawidget. 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-vegawidget

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-vegawidget

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-vegawidget

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.0

READMEYes · 619 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 37 (8 internal)
Examples that run: 100%17 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 52%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting Started HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

12.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,307 · ~35/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

58730 days

2K90 days

12.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on128 r2u4 autocran46 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

vegawidget/vegawidget ↗Organization: vegawidget

71Stars

12Forks

19Open issues

2Open PRs

9Releases

506Commits

6Commit identities

506 commits · Last activity 2024-01-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.5.0 (checked 2026-10-22) · Discussions: 2 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-24 · 692026-07-07 · 71

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/vegawidget/vegawidget on 2026-10-22.

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)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-01-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-01-13

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vegawidget adds 29 packages (16 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (9)

jsonlite htmlwidgets assertthat rlang glue magrittr htmltools digestutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (22)

spelling knitr rmarkdown listviewer testthat yaml fs usethis readr tibble lubridate V8 (>= 4.0)withr learnr rsvg dplyr png conflicted here shiny purrr rsconnect

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

shinyExprPortal altair

Suggests, most downloaded first

qdaR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Ian Lyttle

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Vega/Vega-Lite Developers

Author

Mike Bostock

Contributor

D3 library

Jeffrey Heer

Contributor

Vega/Vega-Lite library

Stuart Lee

Contributor

Dominik Moritz

Contributor

Vega/Vega-Lite library

Arvind Satyanarayan

Contributor

Vega/Vega-Lite library

Alicia Schep

Contributor

Kanit Wongsuphasawat

Contributor

Vega/Vega-Lite library

Listed in earlier versions (2)

David Frank

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.3.3

Hadley Wickham

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.3.3

Releases (9)

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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
0.5.0Latest
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2024-01-13 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.3
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2023-09-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.2
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2022-10-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.4.1
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2022-01-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
vega_version_all, vega_version_available, vw_fetch, vw_load
0.3.3
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2021-11-02 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.2
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2021-01-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
s3_register, vw_set_base_url
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.1
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2020-01-22 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2019-06-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
use_vegawidget_interactive, vw_add_data_listener, vw_handler_data, vw_shiny_get_data
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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0.1.0
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2019-01-30
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-01-30
Total releases: 9 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 34 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("vegawidget")

Format

Lyttle, I., Vega/Vega-Lite Developers, Bostock, M., Heer, J., Lee, S., Moritz, D., Satyanarayan, A., Schep, A., & Wongsuphasawat, K. (2024). vegawidget: 'Htmlwidget' for 'Vega' and 'Vega-Lite' (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vegawidget

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for vegawidget version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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