R Observatory: Metrics for vistime version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vistime

1.3.0

Pretty Timelines in R

1packages depend

23.1Kdownloads / year

87.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sandro RaabeFirst published 2017-01-2917 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A library for creating time based charts, like Gantt or timelines. Possible outputs include 'ggplot2' diagrams, 'plotly.js' graphs, 'Highcharts.js' widgets and data.frames. Results can be used in the 'RStudio' viewer pane, in 'RMarkdown' documents or in Shiny apps. In the interactive outputs created by vistime() and hc_vistime(), you can interact with the plot using mouse hover or zoom.

Install

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

install.packages("vistime", 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("shosaco/vistime")

Development version from shosaco/vistime. 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-vistime

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-vistime

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-vistime

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.76

87.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 393 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

23.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,136 · ~63/day · ~1.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

86030 days

3.8K90 days

23.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on171 r2u16 autocran1.1K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ shosaco/vistime

175Stars

10Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

454Commits

13Contributors

timelinescharts

License GPL-3.0 · 454 commits · Last activity 2026-03-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-02-03 · 1712026-07-07 · 175

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/shosaco/vistime on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Governance and community (1)

Funding

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (6)

rlang assertthat plotly ggplot2 (>= 3.4.0)ggrepel RColorBrewer

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

prettydoc knitr rmarkdown testthat covr highcharter

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

teal.modules.clinical

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Sandro Raabe

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Sandro Raabe

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

17 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.3.0Latest
2026-03-28 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.4
2023-10-29 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-10-29
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-10-24
requires archived package 'assertive.types'
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.3
2022-10-16 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-10-16
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-10-03
check issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.1
2021-04-10 · diff ↗
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2021-02-19 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2020-07-25 · diff ↗

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-01-10 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-03-24 · diff ↗
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0.6.0
2018-10-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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0.1.0
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-29
Total releases: 17 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 1.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("vistime")

Format

Raabe, S. (2026). vistime: Pretty Timelines in R (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vistime

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 vistime version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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