ggdendro

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrie de VriesFirst published 2013-01-2812 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

This is a set of tools for dendrograms and tree plots using 'ggplot2'. The 'ggplot2' philosophy is to clearly separate data from the presentation. Unfortunately the plot method for dendrograms plots directly to a plot device without exposing the data. The 'ggdendro' package resolves this by making available functions that extract the dendrogram plot data. The package provides implementations for 'tree', 'rpart', as well as diana and agnes (from 'cluster') diagrams.

Install

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

install.packages("ggdendro", 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("andrie/ggdendro")

Development version from andrie/ggdendro. 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-ggdendro

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-ggdendro

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

71.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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NOTE2026-06-07
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
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: 100%
Return-value docs: 33%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

218K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #933 · ~597/day · ~18.2K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ andrie/ggdendro

89Stars

13Forks

2Open issues

2Open PRs

6Releases

151Commits

5Contributors

rr-packager-statsggplot2

151 commits · Last activity 2025-11-19 · +2.3% stars, 30d

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (2)

MASSggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

rparttree testthat knitrclusterscales spelling rmarkdown covr

Enhances (0)

none

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Andrie de Vries

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Andrie de Vries

Author, Maintainer

Brian D. Ripley

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Brian D.

no longer listed · 2.15.3 to 0.2.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-01-28
Total releases: 12 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 164 KB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet

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