R Observatory: Metrics for vbracket version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

vbracket

1.4.0

Custom Legends with Statistical Comparison Brackets

0packages depend

1.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yoshiaki SatoFirst published 2026-01-075 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Add publication-quality custom legends with vertical brackets. Designed for displaying statistical comparisons between groups, commonly used in scientific publications for showing significance levels. Features include adaptive positioning, automatic bracket spacing for overlapping comparisons, font family inheritance, and support for asterisks, p-values, or custom labels. Compatible with 'ggplot2' graphics.

Install

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

install.packages("vbracket", 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("h20gg702/vbracket")

Development version from h20gg702/vbracket. 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-vbracket

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-vbracket

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-vbracket

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 33%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,855 · ~5/day · ~144/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ h20gg702/vbracket

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0Open PRs

0Releases

18Commits

2Contributors

18 commits · Last activity 2026-03-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/h20gg702/vbracket on 2026-08-03.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

ggplot2grid

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Yoshiaki Sato

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Yoshiaki Sato

Author, Maintainer

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
1.4.0Latest
2026-03-26 · current release · diff ↗
1.3.2
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1.3.0
2026-03-16 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2026-01-23 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2026-01-07
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-07
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 15 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("vbracket")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vbracket

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{vbracket,
  title  = {vbracket: Custom Legends with Statistical Comparison Brackets},
  author = {Sato, Yoshiaki},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {R package version 1.4.0},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.vbracket},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=vbracket}
}

Derived from the package DESCRIPTION, not from a citation file the authors wrote. If they publish one later, prefer it.

This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

Cite this page

Use this when the claim is about a measurement on this page.

BibTeX

@misc{robservatoryvbracket,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {vbracket} version 1.4.0},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/vbracket},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for vbracket version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/vbracket

RIS

TY  - DATA
AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for vbracket version 1.4.0
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/vbracket
ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/vbracket.

Bound to data release v2026-08-05, which is what makes the numbers on this page reproducible. See how to cite.

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