R Observatory: Metrics for desplot version 1.11

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

desplot

1.11Package record

Plotting Field Plans for Agricultural Experiments

3packages dependsuggested by 1

40Kdownloads / year

74.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin WrightCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A function for plotting maps of agricultural field experiments that are laid out in grids. See Ryder (1981) doi:10.1017/S0014479700011601.

Changes in 1.11

ticks now accepts "all" (a break at every integer coordinate) or a list(x=, y=) for explicit per-axis breaks, in both desplot() and ggdesplot(). TRUE/FALSE behave as before. (P.Schmidt)
New argument panel.border (default TRUE) toggles the panel border and axis lines, in both desplot() and ggdesplot(). Set FALSE for a cleaner field map. (P.Schmidt)
ggdesplot() now leaves cells with a missing value empty, as desplot() does. Previously they were filled with the ggplot2 default grey, which lies inside the range of the default red-gray-blue scale and so looked like a mid-range value. (P.Schmidt)
ggdesplot() no longer draws a spurious no_color legend when text or num is used without col. (P.Schmidt)
ggdesplot() now facets on every conditioning variable in a formula such as yield ~ col*row | site + rep. Previously only the first was used and the others were silently dropped, overplotting cells. (P.Schmidt)
ggdesplot() named col.regions and col.text now fall back to positional matching (as the warning states) when some factor levels are unnamed, instead of leaving cells uncolored. (P.Schmidt)
ggdesplot() now positions num/text labels correctly when the formula has no left-hand side (no fill variable, e.g. ~ col*row | block). Previously the labels on the outer cells were clipped at the panel border because, without a filled tile, the half-cell extent was never established. (P.Schmidt)
Switch to MIT license.
Documentation pages now created via Github Actions.
Fix the checking for multiple cell values when there are 2 panel factors.
New support for aspect with ggdesplot(). (P.Schmidt)
New support for named colors (P.Schmidt).

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Deprecated syntax desplot(formula,data). Use desplot(data, formula) instead.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("desplot", 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("kwstat/desplot")

Development version from kwstat/desplot. 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-desplot

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-desplot

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-desplot

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: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.11

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.11Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Vignettes (1)

Plotting field maps with the desplot package

How these are measured

Downloads

40K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,091 · ~110/day · ~3.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.9K30 days

8.5K90 days

40K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on200 r2u11 autocran115 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

kwstat/desplot ↗Account: kwstat

22Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

98Commits

3Commit identities

rstats

98 commits · Last activity 2026-08-27 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.12, ahead of CRAN 1.11 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-08-27 · 212026-07-07 · 22

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kwstat/desplot on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-27 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-27

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2025-11-13
Commits: 11 by its own account

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 4 from outside contributors, first on 2025-11-13, 4 from forks

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing desplot adds 23 packages (12 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

ggplot2gridlatticereshape2 rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

agridat knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

2indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

FielDHub grapesAgri1 qrlabelr

Suggests, most downloaded first

agridat

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Kevin Wright

Paul Schmidt

Author · added in 1.11

Releases (12)

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1.11Latest
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2026-08-21 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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2019-09-13 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.5
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2019-04-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
StatTileBorder, geom_tileborder, ggdesplot
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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2018-04-03 · diff ↗
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2017-10-13 · diff ↗
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2017-07-13 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-12-18 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0
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2015-12-14
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-14
Total releases: 12 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 1.11
Download size: 306 KB

Appears in task views

Agricultural Science Design of Experiments (DoE) & Analysis of Experimental Data

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citation("desplot")

Format

Wright, K., & Schmidt, P. (2026). desplot: Plotting Field Plans for Agricultural Experiments (Version 1.11) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.desplot

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for desplot version 1.11 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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