ggraph

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenFirst published 2017-02-2414 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The grammar of graphics as implemented in ggplot2 is a poor fit for graph and network visualizations due to its reliance on tabular data input. ggraph is an extension of the ggplot2 API tailored to graph visualizations and provides the same flexible approach to building up plots layer by layer.

Install

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

install.packages("ggraph", 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("thomasp85/ggraph")

Development version from thomasp85/ggraph. 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-ggraph

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-ggraph

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-ggraph

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

19

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 581 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 34%
References docs: 21%

Downloads

911.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #401 · ~2.5K/day · ~76K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ thomasp85/ggraph

1,116Stars

114Forks

50Open issues

7Open PRs

12Releases

408Commits

16Contributors

graph-visualizationggplot2visualizationnetwork-visualizationrggplot-extension

408 commits · Last activity 2025-08-25 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-19 · 1,0842026-07-07 · 1,116

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

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Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (2)

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10ggplot2

Imports (18)

dplyr ggforcegridigraph scalesMASSggrepelutilsstatsviridis rlang tidygraph graphlayouts withr cli vctrs lifecycle memoise

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (11)

network knitr rmarkdown purrr tibble seriation deldir gganimate covr sf sfnetworks

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

129direct

14indirect

and 81 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 14,649 (50%)Rd 11,251 (39%)C++ 1,725 (6%)Vignettes 1,213 (4%)C 204 (1%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S325

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 26 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

407 148 exported

Complexity

2 avg / 26 max

Call network

407 nodes / 487 edges

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Lowest coverage

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Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
highschool	data.frame	506 × 3	–

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer, Author

Authors (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer, Author

Copyright holders (1)

RStudio

Copyright holder · added in 2.0.0

Package Timeline

14 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 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-02-24
Total releases: 14 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 10.0 KB / 3 files
Download size: 3.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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