R Observatory: Metrics for blogdown version 1.24

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

blogdown

1.24

Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown

1packages depend

45.6Kdownloads / year

38.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieFirst published 2017-08-2246 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Write blog posts and web pages in R Markdown. This package supports the static site generator 'Hugo' (https://gohugo.io) best, and it also supports 'Jekyll' (https://jekyllrb.com) and 'Hexo' (https://hexo.io).

Install

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

install.packages("blogdown", 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("rstudio/blogdown")

Development version from rstudio/blogdown. 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-blogdown

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-blogdown

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-blogdown

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.06

38.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

10

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 siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 75%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 48%
References docs: 27%

Downloads

45.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,559 · ~125/day · ~3.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.3K30 days

7.2K90 days

45.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on319 r2u48 autocran5.1K conda_forge42 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ rstudio/blogdown

1,793Stars

326Forks

24Open issues

5Open PRs

46Releases

1,524Commits

65Contributors

hugoblogdownrstudiormarkdownrblog-enginewebsite-generation

1,524 commits · Last activity 2026-06-19 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-14 · 1,7592026-08-14 · 1,793

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/blogdown on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (10)

bookdown htmltools httpuv jsonlite knitr later rmarkdown servr xfun yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

miniUI processx rstudioapi shiny stringr testittoolswhoami

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

ymlthis

Code & Tests

People & History

People (29)

Maintainer (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Christophe Dervieux

Author · added in 1.0

Alison Presmanes Hill

Author · added in 1.0

Contributors (25)

Garrick Aden-Buie

Contributor · added in 0.6

JJ Allaire

Contributor

James Balamuta

Contributor · added in 1.0

Brian Barkley

Contributor · added in 1.0

Jake Barlow

Contributor · added in 1.0

Beilei Bian

Contributor

Maria Paula Caldas

Contributor · added in 1.0

Jon Calder

Contributor · added in 1.0

Show 17 more contributors

Leonardo Collado-Torres

Contributor · added in 0.6

Deependra Dhakal

Contributor · added in 1.0

Forest Fang

Contributor

Brandon Greenwell

Contributor · added in 1.0

Jozef Hajnala

Contributor · added in 0.13

Ian Lyttle

Contributor · added in 0.6

Oliver Madsen

Contributor · added in 1.0

Eric Nantz

Contributor · added in 1.0

Nicolas Roelandt

Contributor · added in 1.0

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor · added in 1.0

Raniere Silva

Contributor · added in 0.11

Xianying Tan

Contributor · added in 0.6

Amber Thomas

Contributor · added in 1.0

Kevin Ushey

Contributor

Juan Manuel Vazquez

Contributor · added in 1.0

Hiroaki Yutani

Contributor

TC Zhang

Contributor · added in 1.0

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.17

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.17

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio Inc

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.17

RStudio, PBC

no longer listed · 0.18 to 1.16

Package Timeline

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

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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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-22
Total releases: 46 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 101 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("blogdown")

Format

Xie, Y., Posit Software, PBC, Aden-Buie, G., Allaire, J., Balamuta, J., Barkley, B., Barlow, J., Bian, B., Caldas, M. P., Calder, J., Collado-Torres, L., Dervieux, C., Dhakal, D., Fang, F., Greenwell, B., Hajnala, J., Lyttle, I., Madsen, O., Nantz, E., Presmanes Hill, A., Roelandt, N., Salmon, M., Silva, R., Tan, X., Thomas, A., Ushey, K., Vazquez, J. M., Yutani, H., & Zhang, T. (2026). blogdown: Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown (Version 1.24) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.blogdown

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for blogdown version 1.24 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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