R Observatory: Metrics for prettyB version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

prettyB

0.2.2Package record

Pretty Base Graphics

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Colin GillespieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Drop-in replacements for standard base graphics functions. The replacements are prettier versions of the originals.

Changes in 0.2.2

Export add_y_axis & add_x_axis tick functions
Improved plot() logic for the log scale
Conditionally use {vdiffr} for testing (CRAN request)
Bug: plot matrices fixes #13 (thanks to @gmonaie)
BUg: barplot and axisnames. Fixes #14 (thanks to @yikeshu0611)

Version 0.2.1

Bug fix: Don't open plotting window when loading the package
Don't override default argument (CRAN request)
Implement hist_p() method
Implement barplot_p() method
Implement boxplot_p() method
Play nicely with existing S3 plotting methods, e.g. plot.lm()

Show all changes in 0.2.2Hide the rest of the changes in 0.2.2

KISS: removed themes. If you want themes, use {ggplot2}
Made grid lines solid, instead of dashed
Add vignette
Update test suite

Version 0.1.1

Adding examples to ?plot

Version 0.1.0

Initial version

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Development of this package was supported by [Jumping

Rivers](https://www.jumpingrivers.com)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("prettyB", 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("jumpingrivers/prettyB")

Development version from jumpingrivers/prettyB. 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-prettyb

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-prettyB

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-prettyB

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: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
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 0.2.2

READMEYes · 338 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNo

Help pages: 7includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 21%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to prettyB

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,295 · ~8/day · ~247/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37430 days

82990 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on70 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jumpingrivers/prettyb ↗Organization: jumpingrivers

65Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

75Commits

2Commit identities

rstatsrgraphicsr-packagevisualization

75 commits · Last activity 2021-02-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-03 · 632026-07-07 · 65

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jumpingrivers/prettyb on 2026-10-22.

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)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing prettyB adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

graphicsgrDevicesstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

covr knitr lintr rmarkdown testthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Colin Gillespie

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2019)

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
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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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.2Latest
record
2021-02-10 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
add_x_axis, add_y_axis
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-05-17
0.2.1
record
2019-05-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
plot, theme_set

added 6 exports
barplot_p, boxplot_p, hist_p, plot_p, reset_prettyB, setup_prettyB
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-05-12
policy violation Loading in a script creates 'Rplots.pdf' in the current working directory
0.1.1
record
2019-05-03
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-05-03
Total releases: 3 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 716 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("prettyB")

Format

Gillespie, C. (2021). prettyB: Pretty Base Graphics (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.prettyB

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

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 prettyB version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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