R Observatory: Metrics for PDE version 1.4.10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PDE

1.4.10Package record

Extract Tables and Sentences from PDFs with User Interface

0packages depend

7.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Erik StrickerCRAN page ↗

The PDE (Pdf Data Extractor) allows the extraction of information and tables optionally based on search words from PDF (Portable Document Format) files and enables the visualization of the results, both by providing a convenient user-interface.

Changes in 1.4.10

*Fixed bug with subscript formating that lead to program crash

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PDE", 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-pde

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-PDE

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-PDE

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.10

READMEYes · 5,732 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.10Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 90%9 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 91%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 64%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

PDE

How these are measured

Downloads

7.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,546 · ~20/day · ~611/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49830 days

1.3K90 days

7.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on85 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PDE adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 1.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: tcltk2 1.1 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5tcltk2

Imports (1)

tcltk

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Erik Stricker

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2020)

Releases (16)

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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removed 1 export
PDE_install_XpdfReader4.02

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-11-27
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added 1 export
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Package metadata

First published: 2020-10-29
Total releases: 16 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 3.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("PDE")

Format

Stricker, E. (2024). PDE: Extract Tables and Sentences from PDFs with User Interface (Version 1.4.10) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PDE

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PDE version 1.4.10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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