R Observatory: Metrics for accessr version 1.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

accessr

1.1.4Package record

Command Line Tools to Produce Accessible Documents using 'R Markdown'

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

0.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul J. NorthropCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions to produce accessible 'HTML' slides, 'HTML', 'Word' and 'PDF' documents from input 'R markdown' files. Accessible 'PDF' files are produced only on a 'Windows' Operating System. One aspect of accessibility is providing a headings structure that is recognised by a screen reader, providing a navigational tool for a blind or partially-sighted person. A key aim is to produce documents of different formats easily from each of a collection of 'R markdown' source files. Input 'R markdown' files are rendered using the render() function from the 'rmarkdown' package https://cran.r-project.org/package=rmarkdown. A 'zip' file containing multiple output files can be produced from one function call. A user-supplied template 'Word' document can be used to determine the formatting of an output 'Word' document. Accessible 'PDF' files are produced from 'Word' documents using 'OfficeToPDF' https://github.com/cognidox/OfficeToPDF. A convenience function, install_otp() is provided to install this software. The option to print 'HTML' output to (non-accessible) 'PDF' files is also available.

Changes in 1.1.4

New features

In rmd2html() the new argument bookdown can be used to render using bookdown::html_document2(), rather than rmarkdown::html_document().

Bug fixes and minor improvements

In rmd2word() the call to accessr::ext_img() has been removed. The release of officedown 0.4.3 makes this unnecessary and problematic. See Issue #2.
In rmd2html() the argument ... in the call to rmarkdown::render() has been removed to avoid errors when passing additional arguments to bookdown::html_document2() or rmarkdown::html_document().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("accessr", 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("paulnorthrop/accessr")

Development version from paulnorthrop/accessr. 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-accessr

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-accessr

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-accessr

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: 1.6 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 1.1.4

READMEYes · 766 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 25%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,595 · ~9/day · ~283/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52430 days

1.2K90 days

3.4K1 year

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Also on94 r2u25 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

paulnorthrop/accessr ↗Account: paulnorthrop

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

377Commits

1Commit identities

accessibilitycommand-linedigital-accessibilityrmarkdownrmarkdown-documentrmarkdown-slide

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 377 commits · Last activity 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Releases over time

2025-03-30 · 42026-10-19 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/paulnorthrop/accessr on 2026-10-18.

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)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-18

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing accessr adds 25 packages (14 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (1)

rmarkdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

bookdown dplyr knitr flextable htmltools huxtable jpeg officer officedown pagedown pngtoolsutilsxfun zip testthat

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)

Paul J. Northrop

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Paul J.

no longer listed · 1.0.1 to 1.1.4

Releases (5)

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1.1.4Latest
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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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2025-03-30 · diff ↗
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2025-03-15 · diff ↗
1.1.1
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2025-01-15 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2024-04-28
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-04-28
Total releases: 5 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 504 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("accessr")

Format

Northrop, P. J. (2026). accessr: Command Line Tools to Produce Accessible Documents using 'R Markdown' (Version 1.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.accessr

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for accessr version 1.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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