R Observatory: Metrics for xkcd version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

xkcd

0.1.0

Plotting 'ggplot2' Graphics in an 'XKCD' Style

0packages depend

5.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Enrique ToledoFirst published 2013-05-169 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 343 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,359 · ~16/day · ~488/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31430 days

1.5K90 days

5.9K1 year

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Also on151 r2u17 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ toledoem/xkcd

4Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

26Commits

1Contributors

ggplot2-themesr-packagetidyversexkcdcrancran-r

26 commits · Last activity 2026-05-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-11-24 · 12026-07-07 · 4

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/toledoem/xkcd on 2026-08-09.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0ggplot2

Imports (5)

Hmiscstatsgridrlang extrafont

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitr rmarkdown zoo reshape splancslatticepkgdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Enrique Toledo

Contributor, Maintainer · added in 0.1.0

Authors (1)

Emilio Torres-Manzanera

Author · added in 0.0.4

Contributors (1)

Enrique Toledo

Contributor, Maintainer · added in 0.1.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Emilio Torres Manzanera

no longer listed · 3.0.1 to 3.0.3

Package Timeline

9 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
0.1.0Latest
2025-11-19 · current release · diff ↗
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
R
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
0.0.6
2018-07-11 · 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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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.0.5
2016-01-13 · diff ↗

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.0.4
2014-12-15 · diff ↗
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
3.0.3
2014-03-05 · diff ↗
0.0.3
2014-03-05 · diff ↗
0.0.2
2014-02-28 · diff ↗
0.0.1
2013-05-16 · diff ↗
3.0.1
2013-05-15
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-05-16
Total releases: 9 / 13 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 1.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("xkcd")

Format

Toledo, E., & Torres-Manzanera, E. (2025). xkcd: Plotting 'ggplot2' Graphics in an 'XKCD' Style (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.xkcd

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for xkcd version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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