aplot

0.3.1

Decorate a 'ggplot' with Associated Information

11packages depend

733.1Kdownloads / year

70.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Guangchuang YuFirst published 2020-03-3028 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Supports data-driven composition of a main plot with associated subplots that need precise axis alignment. Unlike general layout-focused tools such as 'cowplot' and 'patchwork', it enables related subplots to be integrated on the top, bottom, left, or right sides of a main plot with matched axes, so that the combined panels can be interpreted as a coherent whole. This design was inspired by the 'Method 2' described in 'ggtree' (G Yu (2018) doi:10.1093/molbev/msy194).

Install

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

install.packages("aplot", 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("YuLab-SMU/aplot")

Development version from YuLab-SMU/aplot. 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-aplot

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-aplot

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-aplot

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.37

70.1%

Coverage · measured lines

95%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 82%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

733.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #397 · ~2K/day · ~61.1K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ yulab-smu/aplot

129Stars

17Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

167Commits

6Contributors

167 commits · Last activity 2026-07-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/yulab-smu/aplot on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

ggfun gtable ggplot2 ggplotify patchwork magrittrmethodsutilsyulab.utils pillar

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

ggtree testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

5indirect

aplotExtra ggVennDiagram ggbreak ggpicrust2 interpretCI DPI ggplotify ggtangle pctax pcutils plotbb

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Guangchuang Yu

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Guangchuang Yu

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

Thomas Hackl

Contributor · added in 0.1.7

Shuangbin Xu

Contributor · added in 0.1.7

Package Timeline

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-30
Total releases: 28 / 6 yrs
License: Artistic-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 55 KB
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