R Observatory: Metrics for crayon version 1.5.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

crayon

1.5.3

Colored Terminal Output

298packages dependsuggested by 92

13.5Mdownloads / year

49.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

The crayon package is now superseded. Please use the 'cli' package for new projects. Colored terminal output on terminals that support 'ANSI' color and highlight codes. It also works in 'Emacs' 'ESS'. 'ANSI' color support is automatically detected. Colors and highlighting can be combined and nested. New styles can also be created easily. This package was inspired by the 'chalk' 'JavaScript' project.

Changes in 1.5.3

The semantics of the cli.default_num_colors options is now different. It is now used as the default number of colors if the number of colors is not already set by the cli.num_colors option, the R_CLI_NUM_COLORS environment variable, the crayon.enabled and crayon.colors options, the NO_COLOR environment variable, the knitr.in.progress option, or a sink() call for the stream. This matches the behavior of the cli package.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("crayon", 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("r-lib/crayon")

Development version from r-lib/crayon. 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-crayon

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-crayon

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-crayon

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-21
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-08-17
OK13 OK2026-08-05

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.3

READMEYes · 358 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 21includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%19 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 90%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

13.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #50 · ~36.9K/day · ~1.1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1M30 days

3.2M90 days

13.5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on206.4K r2u245 autocran2.3M conda_forge23.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/crayon ↗Organization: r-lib

324Stars

39Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

7Releases

322Commits

19Commit identities

r

322 commits · Last activity 2025-10-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.5.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.5.3 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-14 · 3202026-09-03 · 324

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/crayon on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-06-23

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing crayon adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

grDevicesmethodsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

mockery rstudioapi testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

298direct

2,789indirect

Depends 9 · Imports 289

Suggested by 92

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 250 more dependents and 92 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.3.2

Brodie Gaslam

Contributor · added in 1.3.2

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.5.3

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2014)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Gabor Csardi

no longer listed · 1.2.0 to 1.3.1

Releases (15)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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2021-01-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
has_hyperlink, hyperlink, num_ansi_colors
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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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2017-09-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
col_align
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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removed 1 export
start
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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added 4 exports
col_nchar, col_strsplit, col_substr, col_substring
1.1.0
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2014-10-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
combine_styles, drop_style, make_style, num_colors, show_ansi_colors
1.0.0
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2014-09-23
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-23
Total releases: 15 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 39 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("crayon")

Format

Csárdi, G., Posit Software, PBC, & Gaslam, B. (2024). crayon: Colored Terminal Output (Version 1.5.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.crayon

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for crayon version 1.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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