R Observatory: Metrics for patchwork version 1.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

patchwork

1.3.2Package record

The Composer of Plots

357packages dependsuggested by 310

3.8Mdownloads / year

61.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The 'ggplot2' package provides a strong API for sequentially building up a plot, but does not concern itself with composition of multiple plots. 'patchwork' is a package that expands the API to allow for arbitrarily complex composition of plots by, among others, providing mathematical operators for combining multiple plots. Other packages that try to address this need (but with a different approach) are 'gridExtra' and 'cowplot'.

Changes in 1.3.2

Fixed a load-time bug that could throw spurious warnings

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("patchwork", 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("thomasp85/patchwork")

Development version from thomasp85/patchwork. 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-patchwork

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-patchwork

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-patchwork

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: 4.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 1.3.2

READMEYes · 212 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 17 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%14 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 67%
Return-value docs: 87%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting Started

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #172 · ~10.5K/day · ~319.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

312.2K30 days

964.2K90 days

3.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on63.4K r2u132 autocran383.8K conda_forge2.4K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

thomasp85/patchwork ↗Account: thomasp85

2,616Stars

171Forks

76Open issues

6Open PRs

10Releases

348Commits

21Commit identities

rstatsggplot2visualizationggplot-extension

348 commits · Last activity 2025-08-25 · +0.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.3.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.3.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 27

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 2,5542026-10-10 · 2,616

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/thomasp85/patchwork on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-08-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-08-25

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing patchwork adds 17 packages (7 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (10)

ggplot2 gtablegridstatsgrDevicesutilsgraphicsrlang cli farver

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

knitr rmarkdown gridGraphics gridExtra ragg testthat (>= 2.1.0)vdiffr covr png gt

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

357direct

234indirect

Depends 5 · Imports 352

Suggested by 310

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 309 more dependents and 310 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2019), Author

Releases (10)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.3.2Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-09-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
wrap_table
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.0
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added 1 export
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2023-08-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-08-19 · diff ↗
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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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2020-12-17 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2020-11-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
inset_element
1.0.1
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2020-06-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
align_patches
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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1.0.0
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2019-12-01
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-12-01
Total releases: 10 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 3.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("patchwork")

Format

Pedersen, T. L. (2025). patchwork: The Composer of Plots (Version 1.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.patchwork

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for patchwork version 1.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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