threejs

0.3.4

Interactive 3D Scatter Plots, Networks and Globes

5packages depend

1.8Mdownloads / year

35.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by B. W. LewisFirst published 2015-05-195 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create interactive 3D scatter plots, network plots, and globes using the 'three.js' visualization library (https://threejs.org).

Install

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

install.packages("threejs", 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("bwlewis/rthreejs")

Development version from bwlewis/rthreejs. 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-threejs

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-threejs

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-threejs

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

35.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 731 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 43%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 40%

Downloads

1.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #187 · ~4.8K/day · ~146.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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950.5K90 days

1.8M1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bwlewis/rthreejs

308Stars

57Forks

36Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

472Commits

13Contributors

data-visualizationrwebglthreejsigraphgraph-animation

472 commits · Last activity 2025-05-03 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 3052026-07-07 · 308

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bwlewis/rthreejs on 2026-07-30.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0.0igraph

Imports (5)

htmlwidgets base64enc crosstalkmethodsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

maps

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

15indirect

BNSP cholera epicontacts shinystan rtemis

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

B. W. Lewis

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

B. W. Lewis

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (4)

Andreas Briese

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

Alexey Stukalov

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

B. Thieurmel

Contributor · added in 0.3.1

Yihui Xie

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

B. W. Lewis

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Three.js authors

jQuery Foundation

Listed in earlier versions (1)

David Piegza

no longer listed · 0.2.2

Package Timeline

5 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
0.3.4Latest
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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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.3
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.1
2017-08-13 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2.2
2016-04-01 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2015-05-19

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-05-19
Total releases: 5 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 318 KB / 2 files
Download size: 718 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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