easystats
The easystats meta-package is install tooling wrapped around a relicensed ecosystem.
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crosstalk vs ggpubr
A side-by-side editorial comparison of crosstalk and ggpubr — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
crosstalk vs ggpubr: at a glance
What is crosstalk?
crosstalk is frozen infrastructure: four releases in five years, mostly CRAN upkeep.
crosstalk provides the shared-selection and filtering layer that lets independent htmlwidgets communicate on a page without Shiny. Its visible history is four releases across five years, one of which made a substantive change and three of which were fixes. The most recent exists only to clear an R CMD check NOTE.
What is ggpubr?
ggpubr reached 1.0.0 with p-value formatting presets for specific journals
ggpubr adds publication-ready statistics and annotation to ggplot2. Two releases define its capability: 0.5.0 introduced the stat_*_test family and geom_pwc() for pairwise comparison brackets, and 1.0.0 added p-value formatting presets matching named journal house styles. In between, most releases are ggplot2 and dplyr deprecation chasing.
crosstalk vs ggpubr: editorial side-by-side
crosstalk
0.0ANALYTICS
crosstalk is frozen infrastructure: four releases in five years, mostly CRAN upkeep.
◆ Current state
crosstalk provides the shared-selection and filtering layer that lets independent htmlwidgets communicate on a page without Shiny. Its visible history is four releases across five years, one of which made a substantive change and three of which were fixes. The most recent exists only to clear an R CMD check NOTE.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is finished in the sense that matters: it does one thing, widget authors depend on it, and it changes when R or CRAN forces it to. The single directional move here is 1.2.0 dropping the bundled Bootstrap dependency so crosstalk stops imposing a CSS framework on the pages that embed it. Nothing since suggests further design work.
◆ Prediction
The next release is most likely another CRAN-compliance fix; the entries show no feature work in progress.
ggpubr
0.0ANALYTICS
ggpubr reached 1.0.0 with p-value formatting presets for specific journals
◆ Current state
ggpubr adds publication-ready statistics and annotation to ggplot2. Two releases define its capability: 0.5.0 introduced the stat_*_test family and geom_pwc() for pairwise comparison brackets, and 1.0.0 added p-value formatting presets matching named journal house styles. In between, most releases are ggplot2 and dplyr deprecation chasing.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is moving from drawing statistics to matching the conventions of where they get published - style presets are a different kind of feature from a new test. That sits on a persistent maintenance load: after_stat migrations, linewidth parameters, R-devel changing how the Wilcoxon test handles ties. ggpubr absorbs upstream deprecations so that figure code written years ago keeps rendering.
◆ Prediction
Expect the preset list to grow as users request their own journals' conventions, and the deprecation-chasing to continue with each ggplot2 release; the statistical test coverage looks complete enough that additions there would be surprising.
Alternatives to crosstalk and ggpubr
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either crosstalk or ggpubr.
discrim
discrim settled into a thin engine shim after handing its model definitions to parsnip.
dbparser
dbparser shed its database and CSV writers to become just a DrugBank parser.
desirability2
desirability2 is making multi-metric model selection a first-class tidymodels step.
cmdstanr
cmdstanr keeps adding fast approximations beside full HMC, and fighting Windows toolchains.
comtradr
comtradr's 1.0 line is a long tail of patches against a brittle UN trade API.
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Recent activity from crosstalk and ggpubr
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1mo agoggpubrJournal-specific p-value formatting presets in 1.0.0 ⚡
- 5mo agoggpubrRaises R and dplyr minimums, migrates off deprecated syntax
- 9mo agoggpubrPins Wilcoxon p-values against an R-devel change
- 11mo agocrosstalkRd link anchors fixed for R CMD check
- 1y agoggpubrFixes after_stat() namespace failures in reverse dependencies
- 2y agocrosstalkFixes for SharedData in Shiny modules and filter escaping
- 3y agoggpubrggadjust_pvalue() and reproducible jitter seeds
- 3y agoggpubrgeom_pwc() and the stat_*_test family arrive ⚡
- 4y agocrosstalkBootstrap dependency dropped from filter and layout helpers
- 6y agocrosstalkClearer error when Shiny is not installed
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between crosstalk and ggpubr?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. crosstalk and ggpubr are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is crosstalk better than ggpubr?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. crosstalk and ggpubr are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to crosstalk?
Top crosstalk alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "crosstalk alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/crosstalk for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to ggpubr?
Top ggpubr alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ggpubr alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ggpubr for the full list with editorial commentary on each.