R Observatory: Metrics for bittermelon version 2.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bittermelon

2.3.1

Bitmap Tools

2packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

74.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Trevor L. DavisFirst published 2021-09-099 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functions for creating, modifying, and displaying bitmaps including printing them in the terminal. There is a special emphasis on monochrome bitmap fonts and their glyphs as well as colored pixel art/sprites. Provides native read/write support for the 'hex' and 'yaff' bitmap font formats and if 'monobit' https://github.com/robhagemans/monobit is installed can also read/write several additional bitmap font formats.

Install

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

install.packages("bittermelon", 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("trevorld/bittermelon")

Development version from trevorld/bittermelon. 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-bittermelon

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-bittermelon

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-bittermelon

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.04

74.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

6

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

READMEYes · 614 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 98%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,614 · ~16/day · ~475/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29130 days

1.4K90 days

5.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.3K r2u27 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ trevorld/bittermelon

9Stars

0Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

200Commits

1Contributors

200 commits · Last activity 2026-05-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-04 · 82026-07-07 · 9

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/trevorld/bittermelon on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Show all practices

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrAirEditorConfig

Governance and community (1)

Funding

Git structural (1)

Submodules

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-03-22

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-03-22

Evidence

claude: on or before 2026-03-22 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

cligrDevicesgridpng Unicodeutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

colorfast farver gridpattern hexfont (>= 0.5.1)knitr magick mazing ragg rmarkdown testthat vdiffr withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

hexfont lofifonts

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Trevor L. Davis

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0.2

Authors (1)

Trevor L. Davis

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0.2

Other (3)

josehzz

art · added in 2.0.2

Frederic Cambus

tyg

Markus Kuhn

tyg · added in 2.0.2

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Trevor L Davis

no longer listed · 0.1.3 to 1.1.2

Rob Hagemans

no longer listed · 0.1.3 to 1.1.2

Package Timeline

9 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.3.1Latest
2026-03-27 · current release · diff ↗
2.2.1
2026-01-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.1.1
2025-01-16 · diff ↗
2.0.2
2024-06-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.2
2023-12-15 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.1
2023-02-12 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2022-08-15 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.1
2021-11-01 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2021-09-09
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-09
Total releases: 9 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 529 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bittermelon")

Format

Davis, T. L., josehzz, Cambus, F., & Kuhn, M. (2026). bittermelon: Bitmap Tools (Version 2.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bittermelon

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bittermelon version 2.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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