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Visualizing Categorical Data

51packages depend

676.8Kdownloads / year

52.4%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by David MeyerFirst published 2002-12-1656 releasesCRAN page ↗

Visualization techniques, data sets, summary and inference procedures aimed particularly at categorical data. Special emphasis is given to highly extensible grid graphics. The package was package was originally inspired by the book "Visualizing Categorical Data" by Michael Friendly and is now the main support package for a new book, "Discrete Data Analysis with R" by Michael Friendly and David Meyer (2015).

Install

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

install.packages("vcd", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-vcd

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-vcd

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-vcd

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

Slowest check: 5.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

52.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-11
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WARNING2026-06-14
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-29
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-04-28
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 76%
Return-value docs: 84%
References docs: 84%

Downloads

676.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #519 · ~1.9K/day · ~56.4K/mo

Releases R versions

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41.9K30 days

150.1K90 days

676.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on12.7K r2u310 autocran9.2K conda_forge80 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 2.4.0grid

Imports (6)

statsutilsMASSgrDevicescolorspace lmtest

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

KernSmoothmvtnorm kernlab HSAUR3 coin

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

51direct

61indirect

and 3 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 7,787 (41%)Rd 7,308 (39%)Vignettes 2,892 (15%)Other 854 (5%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S392

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 96 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

52%

Expression

49.1%

Tests / Examples

52.4% / 80% ex

Functions

185 82 exported

Complexity

7.7 avg / 96 max

Call network

185 nodes / 128 edges

Call graph

Open call graph →

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Lowest coverage

185 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
assocstats exp	3	0%
binreg_plot exp	51	0%
cd_plot exp	1	0%
cotab_agreementplot exp	2	0%
cotab_assoc exp	4	0%
cotab_coindep exp	17	0%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 16

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
Arthritis	data.frame	84 × 5	in 2 packages
Baseball	data.frame	322 × 25	–
BrokenMarriage	data.frame	20 × 4	–
Bundesliga	data.frame	14,018 × 7	–
DanishWelfare	data.frame	180 × 5	–
Hitters	data.frame	154 × 4	–
JobSatisfaction	data.frame	8 × 4	–
JointSports	data.frame	40 × 5	–
NonResponse	data.frame	12 × 4	–
OvaryCancer	data.frame	16 × 5	–
Punishment	data.frame	36 × 5	–
SpaceShuttle	data.frame	24 × 6	–
Suicide	data.frame	306 × 6	in 2 packages
Trucks	data.frame	24 × 5	–
VisualAcuity	data.frame	32 × 4	–
VonBort	data.frame	280 × 4	–

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

David Meyer

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

David Meyer

Author, Maintainer

Michael Friendly

Author · added in 1.2-10

Kurt Hornik

Author

Achim Zeileis

Author

Contributors (1)

Florian Gerber

Contributor · added in 1.3-0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Alexandros Karatzoglou

no longer listed · 0.1-3 to 0.1-3.5

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2002-12-16
Total releases: 56 / 24 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.4.0
Bundled data: 84 KB / 33 files
Download size: 676 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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