highcharter

0.9.5

A Wrapper for the 'Highcharts' Library

10packages depend

1.1Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua KunstFirst published 2016-01-129 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A wrapper for the 'Highcharts' library including shortcut functions to plot R objects. 'Highcharts' https://www.highcharts.com/ is a charting library offering numerous chart types with a simple configuration syntax.

Install

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

install.packages("highcharter", 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("jbkunst/highcharter")

Development version from jbkunst/highcharter. 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-highcharter

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-highcharter

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-highcharter

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

99%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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NOTE2026-07-16
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OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-21
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-20
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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OK2026-04-30
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ERROR2026-03-10
5 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 9 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 167 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 92%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 1%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,097 · ~2.9K/day · ~89.5K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jbkunst/highcharter

737Stars

153Forks

39Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

1,245Commits

34Contributors

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1,245 commits · Last activity 2026-04-26 · -0.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Checks run against github.com/jbkunst/highcharter on 2026-07-26.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

32 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (20)

htmlwidgets magrittr purrr rlist assertthat zoo dplyr tibble stringr broom xts quantmod tidyr htmltools jsonlite igraph lubridate yaml rlang rjson

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

knitr rmarkdownsurvivalggplot2 httr viridisLite shinyMASSgapminder forecast geojsonio testthat covr spelling

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (15)

Maintainer (1)

Joshua Kunst

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Joshua Kunst

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (14)

Nuno Agostinho

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Jonathan Armond

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

David Breuer

Contributor · added in 0.8.2

Paul Campbell

Contributor · added in 0.9.4

Adline Dsilva

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Eduardo Flores

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Martin John Hadley

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Dean Kilfoyle

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

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Christian Minich

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Danton Noriega

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Bart Oortwijn

Contributor · added in 0.8.2

Kamil Slowikowski

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Mauricio Vargas

Contributor · added in 0.8.2

Michael Yan

Contributor · added in 0.8.2

Package Timeline

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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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.9.4
2022-01-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.8.2
2020-07-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.7.0
2019-01-15 · 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
0.5.0
2017-01-17 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2016-07-15 · diff ↗

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-03-28 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2016-02-25 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2016-01-12
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-12
Total releases: 9 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 346 KB / 14 files
Download size: 1.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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