scales

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenFirst published 2011-09-2223 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Graphical scales map data to aesthetics, and provide methods for automatically determining breaks and labels for axes and legends.

Install

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

install.packages("scales", 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("r-lib/scales")

Development version from r-lib/scales. 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-scales

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-scales

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-scales

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.36

82.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
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WARNING2026-06-08
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ERROR2026-06-07
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 227 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 33%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

19.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7 · ~54.3K/day · ~1.7M/mo

Releases R versions

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2.2M30 days

5.7M90 days

19.8M1 year

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Also on130.4K r2u215 autocran1.3M conda_forge1.5K bioconda352 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/scales

446Stars

118Forks

29Open issues

12Open PRs

13Releases

744Commits

57Contributors

rggplot2

744 commits · Last activity 2025-09-09 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-04 · 4302026-07-20 · 446

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/scales on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

Governance and community (1)

CODEOWNERS

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (9)

cli farver glue labeling lifecycle R6 RColorBrewer rlang viridisLite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

bit64 covr dichromat ggplot2 hms stringi testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1,412direct

6,017indirect

and 1,364 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 9,706 (65%)Rd 4,908 (33%)Markdown 403 (3%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S351R63

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 23 max
Test cases: 218 / 0.36 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

83%

Expression

82.2%

Tests / Examples

82.7% / 74% ex

Functions

288 149 exported

Complexity

2.5 avg / 23 max

Call network

288 nodes / 290 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

288 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
abs_area exp	1	0%
breaks_timespan exp	5	0%
cbreaks exp	7	0%
demo_continuous exp	1	0%
demo_datetime exp	1	0%
demo_discrete exp	1	0%

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.3.0

Authors (3)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.3.0

Dana Seidel

Author · added in 1.1.0

Hadley Wickham

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.0

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.2.5 to 1.2.1

Posit, PBC

no longer listed · 1.3.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-09-22
Total releases: 23 / 15 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 321 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet