R Observatory: Metrics for extrafontdb version 1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

extrafontdb

1.1Package record

Holding the Database for the 'extrafont' Package

1packages depend

270.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Frederic BertrandCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

It is meant to be used with the 'extrafont' package. The 'extrafont' package contains the code to install and use fonts, while the 'extrafontdb' package contains the font database.

Install

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

install.packages("extrafontdb", 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("fbertran/extrafontdb")

Development version from fbertran/extrafontdb. 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-extrafontdb

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-extrafontdb

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-extrafontdb

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: 46 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-16
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-15
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1

READMEYes · 240 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

270.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #900 · ~741/day · ~22.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

12.6K30 days

47.2K90 days

270.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on4K r2u143 autocran6.9K conda_forge116 bioconda486 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

fbertran/extrafontdb ↗Account: fbertran

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

11Commits

1Commit identities

11 commits · Last activity 2025-09-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-11-01 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fbertran/extrafontdb on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 2.14

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

3indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

extrafont

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Frederic Bertrand

Maintainer since 1.1 (2025) · added in 1.1

Winston Chang

Author

Previously maintained by Winston Chang (1.0).

Releases (2)

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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-06-11
Total releases: 2 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14
Download size: 4.0 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("extrafontdb")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 extrafontdb version 1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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