dotwhisker

0.8.6

Dot-and-Whisker Plots of Regression Results

3packages depend

61.3Kdownloads / year

19.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yue HuFirst published 2015-07-2825 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create quick and easy dot-and-whisker plots of regression results. It takes as input either (1) a coefficient table in standard form or (2) one (or a list of) fitted model objects (of any type that has methods implemented in the 'parameters' package). It returns 'ggplot' objects that can be further customized using tools from the 'ggplot2' package. The package also includes helper functions for tasks such as rescaling coefficients or relabeling predictor variables. See more methodological discussion of the visualization and data management methods used in this package in Kastellec and Leoni (2007) doi:10.1017/S1537592707072209 and Gelman (2008) doi:10.1002/sim.3107.

Install

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

install.packages("dotwhisker", 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("fsolt/dotwhisker")

Development version from fsolt/dotwhisker. 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-dotwhisker

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

# 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-dotwhisker

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.04

19.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 43%

Downloads

61.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,555 · ~168/day · ~5.1K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ fsolt/dotwhisker

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9Forks

7Open issues

2Open PRs

18Releases

545Commits

7Contributors

rstatsr-packagegraphicsplotregression-models

545 commits · Last activity 2026-06-24

Repository practices

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CRAN release process (2)

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Git structural (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.2.0ggplot2

Imports (12)

gridgtable gridExtrastatsparameters performance patchwork dplyr stringr rlang purrr marginaleffects

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

ordinal tibble knitr rmarkdown broom testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

DAGassist broom.mixed glmmTMB

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Yue Hu

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Yue Hu

Author, Maintainer

Frederick Solt

Author

Contributors (6)

Ben Bolker

Contributor · added in 0.2.1

Os Keyes

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Thomas Leeper

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Stefan Müller

Contributor · added in 0.2.5

Chris Wallace

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Christopher Warshaw

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Oliver Keyes

no longer listed · 0.2.1 to 0.5.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-28
Total releases: 25 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 255 KB
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