R Observatory: Metrics for R.devices version 2.17.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

R.devices

2.17.4

Unified Handling of Graphics Devices

15packages depend

118.3Kdownloads / year

84.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonFirst published 2012-05-0327 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions for creating plots and image files in a unified way regardless of output format (EPS, PDF, PNG, SVG, TIFF, WMF, etc.). Default device options as well as scales and aspect ratios are controlled in a uniform way across all device types. Switching output format requires minimal changes in code. This package is ideal for large-scale batch processing, because it will never leave open graphics devices or incomplete image files behind, even on errors or user interrupts.

Install

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

install.packages("R.devices", 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("HenrikBengtsson/R.devices")

Development version from HenrikBengtsson/R.devices. 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-r.devices

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-R.devices

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-R.devices

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.31

84.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-13
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-23
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 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: 63%
Documented parameters: 76%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 6%

Downloads

118.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,139 · ~324/day · ~9.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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30.9K90 days

118.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.9K r2u171 autocran3.8K conda_forge239 bioconda60 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ henrikbengtsson/r.devices

19Stars

5Forks

12Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

509Commits

1Contributors

rpackagegraphics

509 commits · Last activity 2026-05-09

Stars over time

2025-05-21 · 192026-07-07 · 19

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/henrikbengtsson/r.devices on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.14.0

Imports (5)

grDevicesR.methodsS3 R.oo R.utils base64enc

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

digest Cairo R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

15direct

4indirect

aroma.core PointedSDMs aroma.affymetrix cramR dataquieR eoffice inDAGO inpdfr PSCBS R.rsp babel biplotEZ matrixStats metabodecon metabodeconplus

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-05-03
Total releases: 27 / 14 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2.1)
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.0
Download size: 245 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Bengtsson, H. (2026). R.devices: Unified Handling of Graphics Devices (Version 2.17.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.R.devices

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for R.devices version 2.17.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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