R Observatory: Metrics for Rd2md version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rd2md

1.0.1Package record

Markdown Reference Manuals

0packages dependsuggested by 1

8.9Kdownloads / year

52.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Julian BuschCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Native R only allows PDF exports of reference manuals. The 'Rd2md' package converts the package documentation files into markdown files and combines them into a markdown version of the package reference manual.

Install

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

install.packages("Rd2md", 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("quantsch/rd2md")

Development version from quantsch/rd2md. 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-rd2md

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-Rd2md

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-Rd2md

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 1.0.1

READMEYes · 127 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNo

Help pages: 10 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 29%
Documented parameters: 81%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 20%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction Rd2md

How these are measured

Downloads

8.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,597 · ~24/day · ~742/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

67830 days

1.8K90 days

8.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on68 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

quantsch/rd2md ↗Account: quantsch

18Stars

9Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

126Commits

6Commit identities

126 commits · Last activity 2024-06-17 · Discussions: 1 post

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 77%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 27
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/quantsch/rd2md 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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-06-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Rd2md adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (1)

tools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr testthat rmarkdown devtools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

scriptexec

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Julian Busch

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2017)

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-06-17 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2024-03-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
Rd2markdown, ReferenceManual, parseRd
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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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0.0.1
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-22
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 198 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rd2md")

Format

Busch, J. (2024). Rd2md: Markdown Reference Manuals (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Rd2md

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 Rd2md version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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