ggrastr

1.0.2

Rasterize Layers for 'ggplot2'

15packages depend

467.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Evan BiederstedtFirst published 2020-06-179 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Rasterize only specific layers of a 'ggplot2' plot while simultaneously keeping all labels and text in vector format. This allows users to keep plots within the reasonable size limit without loosing vector properties of the scale-sensitive information.

Install

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

install.packages("ggrastr", 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("VPetukhov/ggrastr")

Development version from VPetukhov/ggrastr. 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-ggrastr

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-ggrastr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Check history

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

Documentation

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Downloads

467.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #381 · ~1.3K/day · ~39K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ vpetukhov/ggrastr

236Stars

18Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

223Commits

8Contributors

223 commits · Last activity 2023-06-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/vpetukhov/ggrastr on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (2)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.2

Imports (6)

ggplot2 Cairo ggbeeswarmgridpng ragg

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr maps rmarkdown sf

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

15direct

2indirect

ClustAssess HetSeq RGraphSpace power.nb scCustomize tidyplots RNAseqQC SCpubr Seurat conos dittoViz grandR hahmmr numbat sccore

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Evan Biederstedt

Maintainer, Author

Authors (3)

Evan Biederstedt

Maintainer, Author

Viktor Petukhov

Author, Copyright holder

Teun van den Brand

Author · added in 0.2.0

Viktor Petukhov

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

9 releases. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.2Latest
2023-06-01 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.1
2021-12-08 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2021-11-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.3
2021-03-01 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2021-02-19 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2020-09-14 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2020-09-12 · diff ↗
0.1.9
2020-06-21 · diff ↗
0.1.8
2020-06-17
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-17
Total releases: 9 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 2.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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