ggdensity

1.0.1

Interpretable Bivariate Density Visualization with 'ggplot2'

6packages depend

14.8Kdownloads / year

96.3%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by James OttoFirst published 2022-02-155 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The 'ggplot2' package provides simple functions for visualizing contours of 2-d kernel density estimates. 'ggdensity' implements several additional density estimators as well as more interpretable visualizations based on highest density regions instead of the traditional height of the estimated density surface.

Install

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

install.packages("ggdensity", 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("jamesotto852/ggdensity")

Development version from jamesotto852/ggdensity. 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-ggdensity

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-ggdensity

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-ggdensity

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: 8.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 34.83

96.3%

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

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 94%
Documented parameters: 84%
Return-value docs: 13%
References docs: 29%

Downloads

14.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,464 · ~41/day · ~1.2K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jamesotto852/ggdensity

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0Open PRs

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249Commits

3Contributors

249 commits · Last activity 2026-02-25 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jamesotto852/ggdensity on 2026-07-31.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

ggplot2

Imports (6)

isoband vctrs tibbleMASSstatsscales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

vdiffr testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

0indirect

TransProR densityarea IOBR ggvfields rbiom tidynorm

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

James Otto

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

James Otto

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

David Kahle

Author

James Otto

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

5 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
1.0.1Latest
2026-02-26 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.0
2023-02-10 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2022-10-24 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2022-07-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.1
2022-02-15
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-15
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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