R Observatory: Metrics for visdat version 0.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

visdat

0.6.1Package record

Preliminary Visualisation of Data

5packages dependsuggested by 3

268Kdownloads / year

96.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicholas TierneyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗rOpenSci review: issue 87 ↗

Create preliminary exploratory data visualisations of an entire dataset to identify problems or unexpected features using 'ggplot2'.

Changes in 0.6.1

New features

New vis_histogram() - visualises the distribution of every numeric column in a dataframe and displays it using a faceted ggplot object. - Thank you @jrosell for implementing this - #163 (PR #164).

Bug fix

Resolved issue where text on axis was floating up higher - #171 (PR #174).

Misc

Remove magrittr; Use |> internally over %>% (#176)
Depend on R 4.2.0 (#176)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("visdat", 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("ropensci/visdat")

Development version from ropensci/visdat. 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-visdat

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-visdat

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-visdat

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: 2.6 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 0.6.1

READMEYes · 1,086 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 17 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Customising-colour-palettes-in-visdat HTML
Using visdat HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

268K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #826 · ~734/day · ~22.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20.5K30 days

54.7K90 days

268K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on5.1K r2u3 autocran4K conda_forge195 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/visdat ↗Organization: ropensci

463Stars

47Forks

29Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

554Commits

20Commit identities

missingnessvisualisationrexploratory-data-analysisropenscir-packagerstatspeer-reviewed

554 commits · Last activity 2026-09-26 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.6.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.6.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 48
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-01 · 4572026-08-27 · 463

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

14 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/visdat on 2026-10-18.

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 conductIssue templates

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2021-08-23

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing visdat adds 40 packages (20 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (12)

ggplot2 tidyr dplyr purrr readrstatstibble glue forcats cli scales rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

testthat plotly knitr rmarkdown vdiffr spelling covr stringr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

7indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

naniar AutoEDA EDAForge studentlife vegetablesSriLanka

Suggests, most downloaded first

tabnet LUCIDus pell

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (8)

Nicholas Tierney

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Nic Crane

Contributor · added in 0.5.2

Stuart Lee

Contributor · added in 0.5.1

Christophe Regouby

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Jordi Rosell

Contributor · added in 0.6.1

Earo Wang

Contributor · added in 0.5.1

Mara Averick

Reviewer · added in 0.5.1

Mara Averick reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/87

Sean Hughes

Reviewer · added in 0.5.1

Sean Hughes reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/87

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.6.1Latest
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2026-09-25 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
%>%

added 1 export
vis_histogram
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
0.6.0
record
2023-02-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
gather_cor

added 7 exports
%>%, abbreviate_vars, data_vis_cor, data_vis_dat, data_vis_miss, vis_binary, vis_value
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
0.5.3
record
2019-02-15 · diff ↗
0.5.2
record
2018-12-10 · diff ↗
0.5.1
record
2018-07-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
label_col_missing_pct

added 5 exports
gather_cor, vis_compare, vis_cor, vis_expect, vis_guess
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.0
record
2017-07-11
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-11
Total releases: 6 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 120 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("visdat")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.00355.

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 visdat 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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