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ggrepel

0.9.8

Automatically Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels with 'ggplot2'

466packages depend
4.7Mdownloads / year
69.9%test coverage
13/13checks pass

Overview

About
Maintained by Kamil SlowikowskiFirst published 2016-01-0918 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides text and label geoms for 'ggplot2' that help to avoid overlapping text labels. Labels repel away from each other and away from the data points.

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Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
Code health
Yes
Tests · ratio 0.30
69.9%
Coverage · measured lines
100%
Documentation · exports
7
Dependencies · direct
Check history
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Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 345 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
47%
Return-value docs
25%
References docs
0%

Downloads

4.7M
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #139 · ~12.9K/day · ~390.9K/mo
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408.1K30 days
1.4M90 days
4.7M1 year
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Repository

Repository
1,259Stars
96Forks
25Open issues
1Open PRs
0Releases
564Commits
24Contributors
ggplot2cranvisualizationtextrstats
License GPL-3.0 · 564 commits · Last activity 2026-04-14 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-19 · 1,2262026-07-07 · 1,258

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies
25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (2)
R >= 4.1.0ggplot2
LinkingTo (1)
Enhances (0)
none

Code & Tests

People & History

People (19)
Maintainer (1)
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Authors (1)
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Contributors (18)
Contributor · added in 0.9.0
Contributor · added in 0.9.1
Contributor · added in 0.9.0
Contributor · added in 0.9.4
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Contributor · added in 0.7.0
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Contributor · added in 0.6.5
Contributor · added in 0.7.0
Contributor · added in 0.9.0
Contributor · added in 0.7.0
Contributor · added in 0.8.0
Contributor · added in 0.7.0
Contributor · added in 0.9.7
Package Timeline

18 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • 0.9.8Latest
    2026-03-17 · current release · diff ↗
  • 0.9.7
    2026-02-25 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
  • 0.9.6
    2024-09-07 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
  • 0.9.5
    2024-01-10 · diff ↗
  • 0.9.4
    2023-10-13 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
  • 0.9.3
    2023-02-03 · diff ↗
  • 0.9.2
    2022-11-06 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
  • R
    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
  • 0.9.1
    2021-01-15 · diff ↗
  • 0.9.0
    2020-12-16 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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  • 0.8.2
    2020-03-08 · diff ↗
  • 0.8.1
    2019-05-07 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
  • 0.8.0
    2018-05-09 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
  • 0.7.0
    2017-09-30 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
  • 0.6.5
    2016-11-24 · diff ↗
  • 0.6.3
    2016-10-20 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
  • 0.5
    2016-02-08 · diff ↗
  • 0.4
    2016-01-12 · diff ↗
  • 0.3
    2016-01-09
  • R
    R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published
2016-01-09
Total releases
18 / 10 yrs
License
GPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R
≥ 4.1.0
Download size
162 KB
Installed size
not tracked yet
With dependencies
not tracked yet
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