R Observatory: Metrics for Rd2roxygen version 1.18

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rd2roxygen

1.18Package record

Convert Rd to 'Roxygen' Documentation

0packages dependsuggested by 1

9.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Functions to convert Rd to 'roxygen' documentation. It can parse an Rd file to a list, create the 'roxygen' documentation and update the original R script (e.g. the one containing the definition of the function) accordingly. This package also provides utilities that can help developers build packages using 'roxygen' more easily. The 'formatR' package can be used to reformat the R code in the examples sections so that the code will be more readable.

Changes in 1.18

Switched the package vignette engine from knitr to litedown.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("Rd2roxygen", 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("yihui/Rd2roxygen")

Development version from yihui/Rd2roxygen. 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-rd2roxygen

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-Rd2roxygen

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-Rd2roxygen

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-release-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 1.18

READMEYes · 20 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.18Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 67%4 run in a plain check · 1 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Rd2roxygen: Convert Rd to roxygen documentation and utilities to enhance R documentation

How these are measured

Downloads

9.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,123 · ~27/day · ~814/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

58730 days

1.6K90 days

9.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on111 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

yihui/rd2roxygen ↗Account: yihui

31Stars

15Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

389Commits

5Commit identities

rroxygen-documentation

389 commits · Last activity 2026-10-19 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.18.1, ahead of CRAN 1.18 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 71%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2024-05-07 · 312026-07-07 · 31

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/yihui/rd2roxygen 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

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

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 Rd2roxygen adds 27 packages (12 with compiled code, 5.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

roxygen2 xfun formatR

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

litedown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

metabolic

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2010)

Hadley Wickham

Author

Releases (37)

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Package metadata

First published: 2010-12-01
Total releases: 37 / 16 yrs
License: GPL
Download size: 21 KB

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rd2roxygen")

Format

Xie, Y., & Wickham, H. (2026). Rd2roxygen: Convert Rd to 'Roxygen' Documentation (Version 1.18) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Rd2roxygen

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Rd2roxygen version 1.18 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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