R Observatory: Metrics for visNetwork version 2.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

visNetwork

2.1.4Package record

Network Visualization using 'vis.js' Library

64packages dependsuggested by 43

928.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Benoit ThieurmelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides an R interface to the 'vis.js' JavaScript charting library. It allows an interactive visualization of networks.

Changes in 2.1.4

Fix CRAN Note documentation & link

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("visNetwork", 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("datastorm-open/visNetwork")

Development version from datastorm-open/visNetwork. 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-visnetwork

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-visNetwork

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-visNetwork

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: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.4

READMEYes · 75 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 2.1.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 65
Examples that run: 27%17 run in a plain check · 46 never run
Exported functions with examples: 97%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 8%
Help pages citing references: 82%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to visNetwork HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

928.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #426 · ~2.5K/day · ~77.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

64.5K30 days

196.3K90 days

928.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7.9K r2u188 autocran18K conda_forge341 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

datastorm-open/visnetwork ↗Organization: datastorm-open

563Stars

125Forks

153Open issues

3Open PRs

19Releases

642Commits

12Commit identities

642 commits · Last activity 2025-09-08 · -0.2% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 77%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 46
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-10 · 5562026-09-30 · 563

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/datastorm-open/visnetwork on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing visNetwork adds 27 packages (15 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (8)

htmlwidgets htmltools jsonlite magrittrutilsmethodsgrDevicesstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

knitr rmarkdown webshot igraphrpartshiny shinyWidgets colourpicker sparkline ggraph tidygraph flashClust

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

64direct

81indirect

Depends 6 · Imports 58

Suggested by 43

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 16 more dependents and 43 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Benoit Thieurmel

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.4 (2015)

R interface

Almende B.V. and Contributors

Author, Copyright holder · added in 2.1.0

vis.js library in htmlwidgets/lib, https://visjs.org/, https://github.com/visjs/vis-network

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Almende B.V.

no longer listed · 0.0.4 to 2.0.9

Titouan Robert

no longer listed · 2.0.0 to 2.1.0

Releases (23)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.1.4Latest
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2025-09-04 · 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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.1.2
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2022-09-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.1.0
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2021-09-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.0.9
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2019-12-06 · diff ↗
2.0.8
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2019-08-28 · diff ↗
2.0.7
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2019-05-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.0.6
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2019-03-26 · diff ↗
2.0.5
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2018-12-05 · diff ↗

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2.0.4
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2018-06-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
2.0.3
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2018-01-09 · diff ↗
2.0.2
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2017-12-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
visHclust, visNetworkEditor, visNetworkEditorServer, visNetworkEditorUI
2.0.1
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2017-07-30 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2017-06-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 16 exports
visCollapse, visGetBoundingBox, visGetConnectedEdges, visGetConnectedNodes, visGetScale, visGetSelectedEdges, visGetSelectedNodes, visGetSelection, visGetViewPosition, visSetTitle, visStorePositions, visTree, visTreeEditor, visTreeModuleServer, visTreeModuleUI, visUncollapse
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0.3
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2016-12-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
addExport, visNearestNodes
1.0.2
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2016-10-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
visGetEdges, visGetNodes
1.0.1
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2016-06-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0.0
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2016-05-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
addIonicons, visMoveNode, visRemoveEdges, visRemoveNodes, visSelectEdges, visSelectNodes, visSetOptions, visSetSelection, visUnselectAll, visUpdateEdges, visUpdateNodes
0.2.1
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2016-01-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
toVisNetworkData, visExport, visGetPositions, visIgraph, visIgraphLayout, visSave, visSetData, visStabilize, visStartSimulation, visStopSimulation
0.2.0
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2015-12-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
visFit, visFocus, visNetworkProxy, visRedraw
0.1.2
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2015-10-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
visLegend
0.1.1
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2015-09-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
addFontAwesome, visClusteringOutliers
0.1.0
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2015-07-17 · diff ↗
0.0.4
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2015-07-08
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-08
Total releases: 23 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Download size: 4.1 MB

Appears in task views

Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics Network Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("visNetwork")

Format

Thieurmel, B., & Almende B.V. and Contributors, . (2025). visNetwork: Network Visualization using 'vis.js' Library (Version 2.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.visNetwork

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for visNetwork version 2.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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