R Observatory: Metrics for distill version 1.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

distill

1.6

'R Markdown' Format for Scientific and Technical Writing

3packages depend

34.4Kdownloads / year

50.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christophe DervieuxFirst published 2019-05-039 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Scientific and technical article format for the web. 'Distill' articles feature attractive, reader-friendly typography, flexible layout options for visualizations, and full support for footnotes and citations.

Install

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

install.packages("distill", 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/distill")

Development version from rstudio/distill. 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-distill

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-distill

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-distill

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

50.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

22

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: 0%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 11%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

34.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,561 · ~94/day · ~2.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

7.8K90 days

34.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.4K r2u17 autocran2.3K conda_forge35 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ rstudio/distill

425Stars

58Forks

145Open issues

4Open PRs

3Releases

1,414Commits

26Contributors

License Apache-2.0 · 1,414 commits · Last activity 2023-11-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-15 · 4222026-07-07 · 425

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/distill on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

28 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (22)

base64enc bookdown digest downlit htmltools jsonlite knitr lubridate (>= 1.7.10)mime openssl png rmarkdown rprojroot rstudioapistatsstringrtoolsutilswhisker xfun (>= 0.18)xml2 yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

covr DiagrammeR htmlwidgets progress r2d3 rsconnect shiny testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

1indirect

memoiR rjtools nuts

Code & Tests

People & History

People (12)

Maintainer (1)

Christophe Dervieux

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.4

Authors (5)

Christophe Dervieux

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.4

JJ Allaire

Author

Rich Iannone

Author

Alison Presmanes Hill

Author · added in 1.0

Yihui Xie

Author

Contributors (6)

Gábor Csárdi

Contributor, Copyright holder

Denis Demchenko

Contributor, Copyright holder

Google LLC

Contributor, Copyright holder

JooYoung Seo

Contributor · added in 0.8

The Polymer Authors

Contributor, Copyright holder

Nick Williams

Contributor, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (6)

Gábor Csárdi

Contributor, Copyright holder

Denis Demchenko

Contributor, Copyright holder

Google LLC

Contributor, Copyright holder

The Polymer Authors

Contributor, Copyright holder

Nick Williams

Contributor, Copyright holder

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.6

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.6

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio, Inc.

no longer listed · 0.7 to 1.3

RStudio, PBC

no longer listed · 1.4 to 1.5

Package Timeline

9 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
1.6Latest
2023-10-06 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.5
2022-09-07 · diff ↗
1.4
2022-05-12 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.3
2021-10-13 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2
2021-01-13 · diff ↗
1.1
2020-12-02 · diff ↗
1.0
2020-10-22 · diff ↗
0.8
2020-06-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.7
2019-05-03

Show 1 earlier events

R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-05-03
Total releases: 9 / 7 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Download size: 241 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Reproducible Research

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("distill")

Format

Dervieux, C., Posit Software, PBC, Allaire, J., Csárdi, G., Demchenko, D., Google LLC, , Iannone, R., Presmanes Hill, A., Seo, J., The Polymer Authors, , Williams, N., & Xie, Y. (2023). distill: 'R Markdown' Format for Scientific and Technical Writing (Version 1.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.distill

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for distill version 1.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-11, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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