R Observatory: Metrics for ascii version 2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ascii

2.6Package record

Export R Objects to Several Markup Languages

1packages dependsuggested by 1

31.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark ClementsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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

Changes in 2.6

Add asciiCoefmat, which is similar to printCoefmat. Note that ascii:::escape.org() now replaces * withg \star{} so that the p-value stars can be read in Org Mode. Please provide feedback if this causes any issues.
Add ascii.microbenchmark.

From NEWS in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 2.6 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 2.6

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 90 (64 internal)
Examples that run: 20%2 run in a plain check · 8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 36%
Documented parameters: 74%
Return-value docs: 68%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

31.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,520 · ~85/day · ~2.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.1K30 days

6.4K90 days

31.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on140 r2u24 autocran1.6K conda_forge161 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mclements/ascii ↗Account: mclementsFork of eusebe/ascii

11Stars

2Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

514Commits

5Commit identities

514 commits · Last activity 2024-01-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-07-04 · 92026-09-01 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/mclements/ascii on 2026-10-22.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ascii adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 231 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: digest 231 KB.

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

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

microsimulation

Suggests, most downloaded first

R.rsp

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Mark Clements

Maintainer since 2.3 (2020), Contributor · added in 2.3

David Hajage

Author

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

Previously maintained by David Hajage (0.1 to 2.1).

Releases (28)

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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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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.6Latest
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2024-01-22 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
asciiCoefmat
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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
2.4
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2020-09-17 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-07-28
2.3
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2020-07-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 11 exports
asciiCbind, asciiList, asciiMixed, asciiTable, cacheSweaveAsciidoc, cacheSweaveOrg, cacheSweavePandoc, cacheSweaveReST, cacheSweaveT2t, cacheSweaveTextile, cbind.ascii
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-01-26
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
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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
2.1
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2011-09-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
expand, interleave, interleave.data.frame, interleave.matrix, paste.matrix, RtangleAscii, tocharac
2.0
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2011-09-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 53 exports
ascii.anova, ascii.aov, ascii.summary.aov, ascii.aovlist, ascii.summary.aovlist, ascii.data.frame, ascii.cast_df, ascii.default, ascii.density, ascii.meanscomp, ascii.CrossTable, ascii.freqtable, ascii.stat.table, ascii.glm, ascii.summary.glm, ascii.describe.single, ascii.describe, ascii.htest, ascii.list, ascii.simple.list, ascii.packageDescription, ascii.sessionInfo, ascii.lm, ascii.summary.lm, ascii.matrix, ascii.mtable, ascii.prcomp, ascii.summary.prcomp, ascii.smooth.spline, ascii.summary.table and 23 more

added 6 exports
asciiCbind, asciiList, asciiMixed, asciiTable, createreport, plim
1.4
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2011-05-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ascii.mtable
1.3
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2011-04-24 · diff ↗
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
1.2
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2011-03-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ascii.stat.table
1.1
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2011-03-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
graph, print.graph

added 4 exports
verbatim, print.verbatim, fig, print.fig
1.0
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2011-02-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
RtangleAsciidoc, RtangleT2t, RtangleOrg, RtangleReST, RtangleTextile

added 61 exports
ascii.anova, ascii.aov, ascii.summary.aov, ascii.aovlist, ascii.summary.aovlist, ascii.data.frame, ascii.cast_df, ascii.default, ascii.density, ascii.meanscomp, ascii.CrossTable, ascii.freqtable, ascii.glm, ascii.summary.glm, ascii.describe.single, ascii.describe, ascii.htest, ascii.list, ascii.simple.list, ascii.packageDescription, ascii.sessionInfo, ascii.lm, ascii.summary.lm, ascii.matrix, ascii.prcomp, ascii.summary.prcomp, ascii.smooth.spline, ascii.summary.table, ascii.survdiff, ascii.survfit and 31 more
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
0.7
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2010-07-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 15 exports
RtangleAsciidoc, RtangleT2t, RtangleOrg, RtangleReST, RtangleTextile, cacheSweaveAsciidoc, cacheSweaveT2t, cacheSweaveReST, cacheSweaveOrg, cacheSweaveTextile, weaverAsciidoc, weaverT2t, weaverReST, weaverOrg, weaverTextile
0.6-4
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2010-06-03 · diff ↗
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2010-05-19 · diff ↗
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2010-05-06 · diff ↗
0.6
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2010-05-06 · diff ↗
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
0.5
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2010-02-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
RweaveTextile, Textile
0.4-2
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2009-11-29 · diff ↗
0.4-1
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2009-11-26 · diff ↗
0.4
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2009-11-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
RweaveSphinx, Sphinx

added 2 exports
RweaveReST, ReST
0.3.2
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2009-10-28 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2009-10-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
SweaveAscii

added 6 exports
RweaveSphinx, RweaveOrg, Asciidoc, T2t, Sphinx, Org
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
0.2.1
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2009-10-11 · diff ↗
0.2
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2009-07-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
SweaveSyntaxAscii
0.1.3
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2009-05-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
SweaveAscii, SweaveSyntaxAscii
0.1.2
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2009-05-04 · diff ↗
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
0.1.1
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2009-04-14 · diff ↗
0.1
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2009-04-04
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20

Package metadata

First published: 2009-04-04
Total releases: 28 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.13
Download size: 89 KB

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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 v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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