PlotTools

0.4.0

Extended Tools for Continuous Legends, Polygon Manipulation, and Visual Display of Categorical Data

6packages depend

48.4Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin R. SmithFirst published 2023-04-186 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Annotate plots with legends for continuous variables and colour spectra using the base graphics plotting tools; and manipulate irregular polygons. Includes palettes for colour-blind viewers.

Install

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

install.packages("PlotTools", 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("ms609/PlotTools")

Development version from ms609/PlotTools. 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-plottools

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-PlotTools

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-PlotTools

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 57 s · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 4.53

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 125 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 65%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

48.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,284 · ~133/day · ~4K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ms609/plottools

1Stars

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7Releases

240Commits

2Contributors

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240 commits · Last activity 2026-03-30 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Martin R. Smith

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

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Martin R. Smith

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Martin Krzywinski

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Martin R. Smith

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.0Latest
2026-01-29 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.1
2024-09-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.0
2023-10-30 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2023-09-28 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2023-05-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0
2023-04-18
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-04-18
Total releases: 6 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 2.2 KB / 8 files
Download size: 44 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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