R Observatory: Metrics for vtree version 5.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vtree

5.7.0Package record

Display Information About Nested Subsets of a Data Frame

1packages depend

8.8Kdownloads / year

50.8%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nick BarrowmanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A tool for calculating and drawing "variable trees". Variable trees display information about nested subsets of a data frame. doi:10.18637/jss.v114.i04.

Changes in 5.7.0

Added %list_rand% summary option to randomly sort values.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("vtree", 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("nbarrowman/vtree")

Development version from nbarrowman/vtree. 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-vtree

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-vtree

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-vtree

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  vtree/tests/testthat/test-vtree.R (.Dim: 2, .Dimnames: 2)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Dimnames' should be changed to 'dimnames'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 5.7.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 5.7.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 16 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 63%5 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 70%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 60%
Help pages citing references: 6%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to vtree

How these are measured

Downloads

8.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,105 · ~24/day · ~732/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

53330 days

1.6K90 days

8.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on117 r2u6 autocran1.4K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

nbarrowman/vtree ↗Account: nbarrowman

76Stars

7Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

23Releases

446Commits

8Commit identities

rdata-visualizationexploratory-data-analysisdata-sciencestatistics

446 commits · Last activity 2026-02-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 5.7.2, ahead of CRAN 5.7.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-02-22 · 752026-07-10 · 76

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nbarrowman/vtree on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vtree adds 74 packages (39 with compiled code, 62 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (6)

DiagrammeR DiagrammeRsvg rsvg htmlwidgets shiny utf8

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown ggplot2 testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

dsROCrate

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Nick Barrowman

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.4 (2018)

Sebastian Gatscha

Author · added in 5.6.4

Franco Momoli

Copyright holder · added in 5.6.4

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Nick Barrowman Sebastian Gatscha Andrea Leofreddi

no longer listed · 4.0.0 to 5.1.9

Nick Barrowman Sebastian Gatscha Franco Momoli

no longer listed · 5.4.6

Releases (11)

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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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-11-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
5.4.6
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
5.1.9
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2021-01-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
grVizToImageFile
5.0.0
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2020-08-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
4.0.0
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2020-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
renderVtree, svtree, use_svgzoom, vtreeOutput
3.0.0
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2019-10-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
VennTable, build.data.frame
2.0.0
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2019-05-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
crosstabToCases

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.0
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2019-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
nodeMeanSD, nodeids
0.1.4
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2018-11-04
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-11-04
Total releases: 11 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 3.9 KB / 3 files
Download size: 2.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("vtree")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v114.i04.

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 vtree version 5.7.0 [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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