R Observatory: Metrics for doconv version 0.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

doconv

0.4.2Package record

Document Conversion to 'PDF', Thumbnails and Visual Testing

0packages dependsuggested by 5

112Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David GohelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides the ability to generate images from documents of different types. Three main features are provided: generating document thumbnails, performing visual tests of documents, and updating fields and tables of contents of a 'Microsoft Word' or 'RTF' document. 'Microsoft Office' ('Word', 'PowerPoint', 'Excel') and/or 'LibreOffice' must be installed on the machine. If 'Microsoft Office' is available, it can produce PDF documents or images identical to the originals; otherwise 'LibreOffice' is used and the rendering may sometimes differ from the original documents.

Changes in 0.4.2

Issues

The visual tests (expect_snapshot_doc() and the functions using it) now count different pixels by comparing the decoded bytes of the images. The 'AE' metric of 'ImageMagick' used in 0.4.1 does not count pixels with 'ImageMagick' 7, where it is weighted by the size of the differences: small differences, e.g. of antialiasing, were underestimated.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("doconv", 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("ardata-fr/doconv")

Development version from ardata-fr/doconv. 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-doconv

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-doconv

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-devel-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 0.4.2

READMEYes · 393 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 91%10 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 73%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 93%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

112K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,433 · ~307/day · ~9.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.3K30 days

18.5K90 days

112K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on151 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ardata-fr/doconv ↗Organization: ardata-fr

19Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

87Commits

3Commit identities

87 commits · Last activity 2026-10-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 816
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 112

Stars over time

2024-12-05 · 162026-07-07 · 19

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ardata-fr/doconv on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-10-15
Commits: at least 13 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-03-13, 1 from forks

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 5.513 commits · Oct 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing doconv adds 27 packages (20 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: magick 4.4 MB, fontLiberation 4.3 MB, fontquiver 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (7)

filelock gdtools locatexec magick pdftools processxtools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

curl flextable officer ragg testthat tinytest webshot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 5

Suggests, most downloaded first

officer flextable mschart munch convertxlsform

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

David Gohel

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

David Hajage

Contributor · added in 0.1.4

initial powershell code

ArData

Copyright holder

Releases (12)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.4.2Latest
record
2026-10-22 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
xlsx2pdf
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.0
record
2026-02-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
expect_snapshot_flextables, expect_snapshot_ggplots, run_in_shiny_app, skip_if_not_snapshot_png
0.3.3
record
2025-08-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.2
record
2023-02-10 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2023-01-06 · diff ↗
0.3.0
record
2022-12-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
expect_snapshot_html, msoffice_available
0.2.0
record
2022-11-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
expect_snapshot_doc
0.1.4
record
2022-08-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
docx2pdf_available, docx2pdf_install, docx2pdf_uninstall

added 2 exports
docx_update, pptx2pdf
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.3
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2021-05-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
init_working_directory, rm_working_directory, working_directory
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-05-12

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0.1.2
record
2021-05-12 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-04-25
policy violation Leaves a directory in '/tmp' if LibreOffice is available
0.1.1
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2021-03-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
check_libreoffice_export
0.1.0
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2021-03-30
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-30
Total releases: 12 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 473 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("doconv")

Format

Gohel, D., ArData, & Hajage, D. (2026). doconv: Document Conversion to 'PDF', Thumbnails and Visual Testing (Version 0.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.doconv

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 doconv version 0.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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