R Observatory: Metrics for ggplot2 version 4.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggplot2

4.0.3Package record

Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics

5,005packages dependsuggested by 2,154

27.7Mdownloads / year

81.2%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit, PBC

A system for 'declaratively' creating graphics, based on "The Grammar of Graphics". You provide the data, tell 'ggplot2' how to map variables to aesthetics, what graphical primitives to use, and it takes care of the details.

Changes in 4.0.3

This is a hotfix release fixing a test, a bug and introducing a feature.

Adapt to changes in rlang::warn_dots_used() (@lionel-, #6830).
Fixed bug where guide_axis_theta() didn't anticipate old-style text elements (#6803).
geom_boxplot()/stat_boxplot() gain a quantile.type parameter (default 7) to control the percentile definition used for hinges and median; set quantile.type = 2 to match SAS's default PCTLDEF = 5, enabling parity with SAS boxplots out-of-the-box. (@munoztd0, #6819)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggplot2", 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("tidyverse/ggplot2")

Development version from tidyverse/ggplot2. 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-ggplot2

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-ggplot2

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-ggplot2

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  ggplot2/tests/testthat/test-annotate.R (.Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘print.ggplot.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 17.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-10-25
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-10-24
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07

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OK13 OK2026-04-30
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-07
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.0.3

READMEYes · 513 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.0.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 226 (87 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%148 run in a plain check (6 of them under a condition) · 8 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 2 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 76%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 21%
Help pages citing references: 2%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

27.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4 · ~76K/day · ~2.3M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2M30 days

6M90 days

27.7M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on256.5K r2u158 autocran1.8M conda_forge1.6K bioconda24.1K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

tidyverse/ggplot2 ↗Organization: tidyverse

7,020Stars

2,125Forks

79Open issues

33Open PRs

30Releases

5,776Commits

384Commit identities

rvisualisationdata-visualisation

5,776 commits · Last activity 2026-10-20 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 4.0.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 4.0.3 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 86
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 30

Stars over time

2025-10-24 · 6,7462026-10-26 · 7,020

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

18 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2 on 2026-10-25.

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 (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesGovernance doc

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-22

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

An outside contributor's pull request to this repository was written with an AI coding tool.

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2025-05-23, 1 from forks

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

33 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggplot2 adds 16 packages (7 with compiled code, 7.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB, viridisLite 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (12)

cligrDevicesgridgtable isoband lifecycle (> 1.0.1)rlang S7 scalesstatsvctrs withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (28)

broom covr dplyr ggplot2movies hexbin Hmisc hms knitr mapproj mapsMASSmgcvmultcomp munsellnlmeprofvis quantreg quarto ragg RColorBrewer roxygen2rpartsf svglite testthat tibble vdiffr xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5,005direct

1,975indirect

Depends 394 · Imports 4,611

Suggested by 2,154

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 4,957 more dependents and 2,154 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (11)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Author, Maintainer since 3.3.2 (2020) · added in 3.0.0

Winston Chang

Author · added in 0.9.2

Dewey Dunnington

Author · added in 3.3.0

Lionel Henry

Author · added in 3.0.0

Kohske Takahashi

Author · added in 3.0.0

Hadley Wickham

Author

Claus Wilke

Author · added in 3.0.0

Kara Woo

Author · added in 3.0.0

Hiroaki Yutani

Author · added in 3.2.0

Teun van den Brand

Author · added in 3.5.0

Posit, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 3.4.2

Previously maintained by Hadley Wickham (0.5 to 3.3.1).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 2.0.0 to 3.4.1

Releases (55)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
4.0.3Latest
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2026-04-22 · current release · diff ↗
4.0.2
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2026-02-03 · diff ↗
4.0.1
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2025-11-14 · diff ↗
4.0.0
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2025-09-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 63 exports
CoordTransform, GeomBin2d, StatConnect, StatManual, add_gg, annotation_borders, class_S3_gg, class_coord, class_derive, class_facet, class_gg, class_ggplot, class_ggplot_built, class_ggproto, class_guide, class_guides, class_labels, class_layer, class_layout, class_mapping, class_rel, class_scale, class_scales_list, class_theme, class_waiver, class_zero_grob, complete_theme, coord_transform, element, element_geom and 33 more
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
3.5.2
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2025-04-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 17 exports
get_geom_defaults, get_labs, is_coord, is_facet, is_geom, is_ggplot, is_ggproto, is_guide, is_guides, is_layer, is_mapping, is_margin, is_position, is_scale, is_stat, is_theme, is_theme_element
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.5.1
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2024-04-23 · diff ↗
3.5.0
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2024-02-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 27 exports
.expose_data, .ignore_data, CoordRadial, Guide, GuideAxis, GuideAxisLogticks, GuideAxisStack, GuideAxisTheta, GuideBins, GuideColourbar, GuideColoursteps, GuideCustom, GuideLegend, GuideNone, GuideOld, check_device, coord_radial, fill_alpha, get_guide_data, guide_axis_logticks, guide_axis_stack, guide_axis_theta, guide_custom, new_guide, old_guide, pattern_alpha, translate_shape_string
3.4.4
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2023-10-12 · diff ↗
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2023-08-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
3.4.2
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2023-04-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
datetime_scale
3.4.1
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2023-02-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
scale_linewidth_identity, scale_linewidth_manual
3.4.0
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2022-11-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
StatAlign, draw_key_linerange, scale_linewidth, scale_linewidth_binned, scale_linewidth_continuous, scale_linewidth_date, scale_linewidth_datetime, scale_linewidth_discrete, scale_linewidth_ordinal, stat_align

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3.3.6
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2022-05-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
3.3.5
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2021-06-25 · diff ↗
3.3.4
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2021-06-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
as_label, geom_bin_2d, get_alt_text, scale_color_viridis_b, sf_transform_xy
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
3.3.3
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2020-12-30 · diff ↗
3.3.2
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2020-06-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
GeomContourFilled, GeomDensity2dFilled, GeomFunction, StatDensity2dFilled, binned_scale, geom_density2d_filled, geom_density_2d_filled, geom_function, scale_alpha_binned, stat_density2d_filled, stat_density_2d_filled
3.3.1
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2020-05-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
3.3.0
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2020-03-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 49 exports
ScaleBinned, ScaleBinnedPosition, StatContourFilled, after_scale, after_stat, el_def, element_render, expansion, flip_data, flipped_names, geom_contour_filled, get_element_tree, guide_axis, guide_bins, guide_colorsteps, guide_coloursteps, guide_none, guide_transform, has_flipped_aes, register_theme_elements, reset_theme_settings, scale_color_binned, scale_color_date, scale_color_datetime, scale_color_fermenter, scale_color_ordinal, scale_color_steps, scale_color_steps2, scale_color_stepsn, scale_colour_binned and 19 more
3.2.1
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2019-08-11 · diff ↗
3.2.0
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2019-06-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
draw_key_timeseries, layer_sf
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
3.1.1
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2019-04-07 · diff ↗
3.1.0
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2018-10-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
StatSfCoordinates, geom_sf_label, geom_sf_text, standardise_aes_names, stat_sf_coordinates
3.0.0
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2018-07-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 57 exports
.data, CoordSf, GeomSf, Layout, PositionDodge2, StatQqLine, StatSf, autolayer, coord_sf, enexpr, enexprs, enquo, enquos, ensym, ensyms, expand_scale, expr, geom_qq_line, geom_sf, ggplot_add, guide_gengrob, guide_geom, guide_merge, guide_train, merge_element, position_dodge2, quo, quo_name, quos, scale_alpha_date and 27 more
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
2.2.1
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2016-12-30 · diff ↗
2.2.0
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2016-11-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
facet

added 21 exports
AxisSecondary, Facet, FacetGrid, FacetNull, FacetWrap, GeomCol, combine_vars, derive, dup_axis, find_panel, geom_col, max_height, max_width, panel_cols, panel_rows, render_axes, render_strips, scale_x_time, scale_y_time, sec_axis, wrap_dims
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
2.1.0
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2016-03-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
scale_colour_date, scale_colour_datetime, scale_fill_date, scale_fill_datetime, scale_size_date, scale_size_datetime, theme_replace
2.0.0
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2015-12-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 20 exports
coord, ggfluctuation, ggmissing, ggorder, ggpcp, ggstructure, is.coord, opts, plotmatrix, scale_area, stat_abline, stat_bindot, stat_hline, stat_vline, theme_blank, theme_line, theme_rect, theme_segment, theme_text, update_element

added 144 exports
.pt, .stroke, Coord, CoordCartesian, CoordFixed, CoordFlip, CoordMap, CoordPolar, CoordQuickmap, CoordTrans, Geom, GeomAbline, GeomAnnotationMap, GeomArea, GeomBar, GeomBlank, GeomBoxplot, GeomContour, GeomCrossbar, GeomCurve, GeomCustomAnn, GeomDensity, GeomDensity2d, GeomDotplot, GeomErrorbar, GeomErrorbarh, GeomHex, GeomHline, GeomLabel, GeomLine and 114 more
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
1.0.1
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1.0.0
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2014-05-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
aes_q, coord_quickmap, label_wrap_gen, labeller, position_jitterdodge, scale_color_distiller, scale_colour_distiller, scale_fill_distiller, stat_ellipse, theme_light, theme_linedraw
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.9.3.1
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0.9.3
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2012-12-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
gg_dep, scale_size_area, theme_classic, theme_minimal
0.9.2.1
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2012-09-11 · diff ↗
0.9.2
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2012-09-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
%+replace%, calc_element, element_blank, element_line, element_rect, element_text, ggtitle, is.ggplot, is.theme, rel, stat_ecdf, theme
0.9.1
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2012-05-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
annotation_logticks, position_identity
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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2012-03-01 · diff ↗ ·
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pattern:^[^\\.]

added 214 exports
%+%, aes_all, aes_auto, aes_string, aes, annotate, annotation_custom, annotation_map, annotation_raster, autoplot, benchplot, borders, continuous_scale, coord_cartesian, coord_equal, coord_fixed, coord_flip, coord_map, coord_polar, coord_trans, coord, cut_interval, cut_number, discrete_scale, expand_limits, facet_grid, facet_null, facet_wrap, facet, fortify and 184 more
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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2007-10-20 · diff ↗
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03
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2007-07-08 · diff ↗
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2007-06-01
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R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2007-06-01
Total releases: 55 / 19 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-2 | file LICENSE in 3.3.3
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 599 KB / 11 files
Download size: 6.0 MB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggplot2 version 4.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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