R Observatory: Metrics for Unicode version 17.0.0-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Unicode

17.0.0-1Package record

Unicode Data and Utilities

2packages dependsuggested by 2

14.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kurt HornikCRAN page ↗

Data from Unicode 17.0.0 and related utilities.

Install

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

install.packages("Unicode", 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-unicode

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-Unicode

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-Unicode

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-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 17.0.0-1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 64%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 36%

How these are measured

Downloads

14.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,724 · ~40/day · ~1.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7K30 days

5.5K90 days

14.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on123 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

1indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

bittermelon phonetisr

Suggests, most downloaded first

gridpattern hexfont

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Kurt Hornik

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-1 (2010)

Releases (19)

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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
12.0.0-1
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2019-04-23 · diff ↗

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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0.1-2
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2010-02-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
Unicode_alpha_tokenizer

added 7 exports
u_case_fold, u_to_lower_case, u_to_upper_case, u_to_title_case, u_char_label, Unicode_alphabetic_tokenizer, u_named_sequences
0.1-1
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2010-01-26
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26

Package metadata

First published: 2010-01-26
Total releases: 19 / 16 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 248 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Unicode")

Format

Hornik, K. (2026). Unicode: Unicode Data and Utilities (Version 17.0.0-1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Unicode

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

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Unicode version 17.0.0-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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