vegalite

0.6.1

Tools to Encode Visualizations with the 'Grammar of Graphics'-Like 'Vega-Lite' 'Spec'

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4.1Kdownloads / year

5.7%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Bob RudisFirst published 2016-03-221 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The 'Vega-Lite' 'JavaScript' framework provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis, akin to 'ggplot' or 'Tableau', that generates complete 'Vega' specifications. Functions exist which enable building a valid 'spec' from scratch or importing a previously created 'spec' file. Functions also exist to export 'spec' files and to generate code which will enable plots to be embedded in properly configured web pages. The default behavior is to generate an 'htmlwidget'.

Install

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

install.packages("vegalite", 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("hrbrmstr/vegalite")

Development version from hrbrmstr/vegalite. 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-vegalite

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-vegalite

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-vegalite

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

5.7%

Coverage · measured lines

99%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 585 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 3%
References docs: 71%

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,388 · ~11/day · ~341/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ hrbrmstr/vegaliteArchived

157Stars

17Forks

16Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

118Commits

8Contributors

vega-litevega-lite-specwidgetvisualizationrstatsrdatavisualizationdata-visualization

118 commits · Last activity 2018-07-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-09-16 · 1562026-07-07 · 157

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/hrbrmstr/vegalite on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (11)

jsonlite htmlwidgets htmltools magrittr digesttoolscliprutilswebshot base64stats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Bob Rudis

Author, Maintainer

Authors (5)

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Author

Author

Author

Kanit Wongsuphasawat,

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.1Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-22
Total releases: 1 / 10 yrs
License: AGPL + file LICENSE
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 917 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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