MSG

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Data and Functions for the Book Modern Statistical Graphics

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Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieFirst published 2011-03-3012 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A companion to the Chinese book ``Modern Statistical Graphics''.

Install

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

install.packages("MSG", 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("yihui/MSG")

Development version from yihui/MSG. 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-msg

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-MSG

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-MSG

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 127 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 45%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ yihui/msg

38Stars

7Forks

23Open issues

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2Releases

136Commits

6Contributors

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136 commits · Last activity 2026-02-26

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

RColorBrewer

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

animation igraph KernSmooth (>= 2.23.15)maps mvtnorm rgl (>= 0.100.30)RgoogleMaps plotrix ggplot2gridMASSsna

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Peng Zhao

Author · added in 0.4

Contributors (2)

Xiangyun Huang

Contributor · added in 0.4

Lijia Yu

Contributor · added in 0.4

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-03-30
Total releases: 12 / 15 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.0 MB / 14 files
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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