R Observatory: Metrics for htmlwidgets version 1.6.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

htmlwidgets

1.6.4Package record

HTML Widgets for R

326packages dependsuggested by 92

9.9Mdownloads / year

5.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carson SievertCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

A framework for creating HTML widgets that render in various contexts including the R console, 'R Markdown' documents, and 'Shiny' web applications.

Changes in 1.6.4

This release reverts the change made in v1.6.3 (to no longer recurse into list-like objects when searching for JavaScript strings wrapped in JS()). Although that change helped prevent infinite recursion in some cases, it ultimately broke too many existing widgets that relied on the previous behavior. If you encounter infinite recursion errors ("C stack usage is too close to the limit"), the best strategy is to coerce the offending items to a character string. (#478)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("htmlwidgets", 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("ramnathv/htmlwidgets")

Development version from ramnathv/htmlwidgets. 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-htmlwidgets

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-htmlwidgets

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-htmlwidgets

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
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 1.6.4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.6.4Citation fileNo

Help pages: 13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 50%2 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 33%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

9.9M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #76 · ~27.3K/day · ~828.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

690.2K30 days

2.4M90 days

9.9M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on162.2K r2u222 autocran641K conda_forge577 bioconda19.4K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ramnathv/htmlwidgets ↗Account: ramnathv

801Stars

203Forks

116Open issues

17Open PRs

7Releases

592Commits

26Commit identities

592 commits · Last activity 2026-04-22 · +0.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.6.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.6.4 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 79%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 6

Stars over time

2025-10-25 · 7862026-10-06 · 801

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ramnathv/htmlwidgets on 2026-10-21.

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)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-05-04

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-21
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 2 from outside contributors, first on 2026-04-21, 2 from forks

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.62 commits · Apr 2026

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

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing htmlwidgets adds 25 packages (14 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

grDeviceshtmltools jsonlite knitr rmarkdown yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

326direct

2,203indirect

Depends 9 · Imports 317

Suggested by 92

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 278 more dependents and 92 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Carson Sievert

Author, Maintainer since 1.5.2 (2020) · added in 1.5.2

JJ Allaire

Author

Joe Cheng

Author

Kenton Russell

Author, Copyright holder

Ramnath Vaidyanathan

Author, Copyright holder

Yihui Xie

Author

Ellis Hughes

Contributor · added in 1.5.3

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.6.3

Previously maintained by Joe Cheng (1.3 to 1.5.1) and JJ Allaire (0.3.2 to 1.2).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.4 to 1.6.2

Releases (20)

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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 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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added 1 export
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-10-04 · diff ↗
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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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getDependency
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setWidgetIdSeed
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appendContent, onRender, onStaticRenderComplete, prependContent
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-12-09
Total releases: 20 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 849 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("htmlwidgets")

Format

Sievert, C., Posit Software, PBC, Allaire, J., Cheng, J., Hughes, E., Russell, K., Vaidyanathan, R., & Xie, Y. (2023). htmlwidgets: HTML Widgets for R (Version 1.6.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.htmlwidgets

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 htmlwidgets version 1.6.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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