gghighlight

0.5.0

Highlight Lines and Points in 'ggplot2'

11packages depend

62.4Kdownloads / year

82.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hiroaki YutaniFirst published 2017-10-0510 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Make it easier to explore data with highlights.

Install

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

install.packages("gghighlight", 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("yutannihilation/gghighlight")

Development version from yutannihilation/gghighlight. 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-gghighlight

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-gghighlight

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.57

82.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 125 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

62.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,263 · ~171/day · ~5.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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3.3K30 days

9.6K90 days

62.4K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ yutannihilation/gghighlight

533Stars

22Forks

21Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

509Commits

5Contributors

509 commits · Last activity 2025-06-14 · -0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-10 · 5232026-07-28 · 533

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/yutannihilation/gghighlight on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.4.0ggplot2

Imports (8)

dplyr ggrepel lifecycle purrr rlang tibble scalesgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

geomtextpath knitr rmarkdown sf testthat vdiffr (>= 0.3.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

0indirect

Spectran SqueakR ggauto idealstan LightLogR PlotFTIR RNAseqQC brolgar cricketdata r4ds.tutorials squat

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Hiroaki Yutani

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Hiroaki Yutani

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

10 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
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.0
2022-10-16 · diff ↗
0.3.3
2022-06-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.2
2021-06-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.1
2020-12-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.0
2020-03-29 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2020-01-25 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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0.1.0
2018-07-04 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-10-05
Total releases: 10 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 928 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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