R Observatory: Metrics for RTLknitr version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RTLknitr

1.1.1Package record

Right to Left Dynamic Documents Using 'knitr'

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Foad EsmaeiliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provide seamless support for right-to-left (RTL) languages, such as Persian and Arabic, in R Markdown documents and 'LaTeX' output. It includes functions and hooks that enable easy integration of RTL language content, allowing users to create documents that adhere to RTL writing conventions. For in-depth insights into dynamic documents and the 'knitr' package, consider referring to Xie, Y (2014) <ISBN: 978-1-482-20353-0>.

Changes in 1.1.1

Added the rtl argument to chunk options for improved handling of right-to-left text when echo = FALSE
Error in markdown_rtl_header has been fixed

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RTLknitr", 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("FoadEsmaeili5/RTLknitr")

Development version from FoadEsmaeili5/RTLknitr. 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-rtlknitr

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-RTLknitr

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-RTLknitr

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

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 1.1.1

READMEYes · 163 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,967 · ~7/day · ~200/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20930 days

57690 days

2.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on82 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

foadesmaeili5/rtlknitr ↗Account: foadesmaeili5

4Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

36Commits

1Commit identities

36 commits · Last activity 2023-08-29 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.0.0) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-10-24 · 32026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/foadesmaeili5/rtlknitr on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RTLknitr adds 56 packages (28 with compiled code, 37 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, gt 3.3 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (4)

knitr magrittr gt bookdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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)

Foad Esmaeili

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.1Latest
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2025-11-21 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2025-07-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.0
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2023-08-25
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-08-25
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 5.9 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RTLknitr")

Format

Esmaeili, F. (2025). RTLknitr: Right to Left Dynamic Documents Using 'knitr' (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RTLknitr

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 RTLknitr version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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