rAmCharts4

1.6.0

Interface to the JavaScript Library 'amCharts 4'

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4.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Stéphane LaurentFirst published 2020-08-2411 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Creates JavaScript charts. The charts can be included in 'Shiny' apps and R markdown documents, or viewed from the R console and 'RStudio' viewer. Based on the JavaScript library 'amCharts 4' and the R packages 'htmlwidgets' and 'reactR'. Currently available types of chart are: vertical and horizontal bar chart, radial bar chart, stacked bar chart, vertical and horizontal Dumbbell chart, line chart, scatter chart, range area chart, gauge chart, boxplot chart, pie chart, and 100% stacked bar chart.

Install

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

install.packages("rAmCharts4", 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("stla/rAmCharts4")

Development version from stla/rAmCharts4. 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-ramcharts4

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-rAmCharts4

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-rAmCharts4

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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 · 70 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 42%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,555 · ~11/day · ~342/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ stla/ramcharts4

28Stars

8Forks

6Open issues

2Open PRs

11Releases

251Commits

2Contributors

ramchartsshinyhtmlwidgets

251 commits · Last activity 2023-03-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2023-03-30 · 272026-07-07 · 28

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/stla/ramcharts4 on 2026-07-30.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (13)

htmltools htmlwidgets reactR shiny jsonlite lubridate minpack.lmtoolsbase64enc xml2 stringrstatsgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

reshape2

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Stéphane Laurent

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Stéphane Laurent

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (3)

Tom Alexander

Contributor, Copyright holder

Terence Eden

Contributor, Copyright holder

Antanas Marcelionis

Contributor, Copyright holder

Tom Alexander

Contributor, Copyright holder

Terence Eden

Contributor, Copyright holder

Antanas Marcelionis

Contributor, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

11 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 4.5.0 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
1.6.0Latest
2022-09-22 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.5.0
2021-10-10 · diff ↗
1.4.1
2021-09-30 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2021-09-11 · diff ↗
1.3.2
2021-06-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.3.1
2021-03-06 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2021-01-12 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2020-11-27 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2020-10-31 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2020-10-01 · diff ↗

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-08-24
Total releases: 11 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 2.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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