R Observatory: Metrics for ascii version 2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ascii

2.6

Export R Objects to Several Markup Languages

2packages depend

36.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark ClementsFirst published 2009-04-0428 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Coerce R object to 'asciidoc', 'txt2tags', 'restructuredText', 'org', 'textile' or 'pandoc' syntax. Package comes with a set of drivers for 'Sweave'.

Install

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

install.packages("ascii", 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("mclements/ascii")

Development version from mclements/ascii. 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-ascii

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-ascii

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-ascii

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 20%
Documented parameters: 74%
Return-value docs: 68%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

36.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,155 · ~101/day · ~3.1K/mo

Releases R versions

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2.5K30 days

9.5K90 days

36.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mclements/ascii

10Stars

2Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

514Commits

5Contributors

514 commits · Last activity 2024-01-22 · +11.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-04 · 92026-08-05 · 10

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/mclements/ascii on 2026-08-16.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 2.13methods

Imports (6)

utilsdigestcodetoolssurvivalstatsgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

Hmisc xtable R2HTML knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

microsimulation R.rsp

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Mark Clements

Maintainer, Contributor · added in 2.3

Authors (1)

David Hajage

Author

Contributors (5)

Mark Clements

Maintainer, Contributor · added in 2.3

Seth Falcon

Contributor · added in 2.3

Friedrich Leisch

Contributor · added in 2.3

Matti Pastell

Contributor · added in 2.3

Terry Therneau

Contributor · added in 2.3

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-04-04
Total releases: 28 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.13
Download size: 89 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Clements, M., Falcon, S., Hajage, D., Leisch, F., Pastell, M., & Therneau, T. (2024). ascii: Export R Objects to Several Markup Languages (Version 2.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ascii

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ascii version 2.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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