R Observatory: Metrics for xkcd version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

xkcd

0.1.1Package record

Plotting 'ggplot2' Graphics in an 'XKCD' Style

0packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

93.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Enrique ToledoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides custom geoms and themes to create charts and graphics in the distinctive, hand-drawn 'XKCD' webcomic style using the 'ggplot2' framework. The package utilizes custom layers for jittered lines, segments, circles, and figures, and includes a theme that supports the necessary 'XKCD' font.

Install

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

install.packages("xkcd", 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("ToledoEM/xkcd")

Development version from ToledoEM/xkcd. 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-xkcd

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-xkcd

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-xkcd

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: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-25
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 0.1.1

READMEYes · 537 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 43%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 43%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,147 · ~16/day · ~478/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39730 days

1.2K90 days

5.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on165 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

toledoem/xkcd ↗Account: ToledoEM

4Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

30Commits

1Commit identities

ggplot2-themesr-packagetidyversexkcdcrancran-r

30 commits · Last activity 2026-08-19 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-11-24 · 12026-07-07 · 4

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/toledoem/xkcd 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

Docs source (1)

pkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing xkcd adds 54 packages (27 with compiled code, 52 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0ggplot2

Imports (4)

Hmiscstatsgridextrafont

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

knitr rmarkdown zoo reshape splancs pkgdown palmerpenguins dplyr ggrepel systemfonts covr testthat (>= 3.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Enrique Toledo

Contributor, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025) · added in 0.1.0

Emilio Torres-Manzanera

Author · added in 0.0.4

Previously maintained by Emilio Torres-Manzanera (0.0.1 to 0.0.6).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Emilio Torres Manzanera

no longer listed · 3.0.1 to 3.0.3

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-11-19
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-09-09
requires archived package 'extrafont'
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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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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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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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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
3.0.3Latest
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2014-03-05 · current release · diff ↗

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3.0.1
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2013-05-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+
0.1.1
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2026-08-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
GeomXkcdRect
0.1.0
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2025-11-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
geom_xkcdpath
0.0.6
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2018-07-11 · diff ↗
0.0.5
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2016-01-13 · diff ↗
0.0.4
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2014-12-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 5 exports
theme_xkcd, xkcdaxis, xkcdline, xkcdman, xkcdrect
0.0.3
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2014-03-05 · diff ↗
0.0.2
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2014-02-28 · diff ↗
0.0.1
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2013-05-16
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-05-15
Total releases: 10 / 13 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 0.1.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 2.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("xkcd")

Format

Toledo, E., & Torres-Manzanera, E. (2026). xkcd: Plotting 'ggplot2' Graphics in an 'XKCD' Style (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.xkcd

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for xkcd version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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