R Observatory: Metrics for flexdashboard version 0.6.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

flexdashboard

0.6.3Package record

R Markdown Format for Flexible Dashboards

3packages dependsuggested by 11

149Kdownloads / year

47.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Garrick Aden-BuieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Format for converting an R Markdown document to a grid oriented dashboard. The dashboard flexibly adapts the size of it's components to the containing web page.

Changes in 0.6.3

flexdashboard now prevents top margin from being applied to boxes created with flexdashboard's markdown syntax when Bootstrap 5 is used. (#443)
Allow using theme.preset without needing to set theme.bootswatch to null. (#444)
Closed #459: Fixed lost braces in certain rendering scenarios (@eliocamp).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from rstudio/flexdashboard. 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-flexdashboard

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-flexdashboard

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-flexdashboard

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: 1.3 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 0.6.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 67%2 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

149K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,153 · ~408/day · ~12.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

12.4K30 days

30.2K90 days

149K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.8K r2u9 autocran3.5K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/flexdashboard ↗Organization: rstudio

849Stars

297Forks

83Open issues

1Open PRs

6Releases

682Commits

24Commit identities

682 commits · Last activity 2026-06-26 · +0.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.6.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.6.3 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 397
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-23 · 8322026-10-18 · 849

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/flexdashboard on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-26

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing flexdashboard adds 43 packages (22 with compiled code, 32 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (12)

bslibgrDeviceshtmltools htmlwidgets jsonlite knitr rmarkdown sass scales shinytoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

1indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 11

Show all 14 packagesHide all 14 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ptable flexsiteboard idcnrba

Suggests, most downloaded first

easystats shinytest wpa vetiver vivainsights tinyshinyserver SimSurvey colleyRstats chronicle kpiwidget searchAnalyzeR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (20)

Garrick Aden-Buie

Author, Maintainer since 0.6.2 (2023) · added in 0.6.2

JJ Allaire

Author

Barbara Borges

Author · added in 0.5.1

Richard Iannone

Author · added in 0.5.1.1

Carson Sievert

Author

Abdullah Almsaeed

Contributor, Copyright holder

Dashboard CSS

Dmitry Baranovskiy

Contributor, Copyright holder

Raphael.js

Noel Bossart

Contributor, Copyright holder

Featherlight

Joe Cheng

Contributor

Examples

Bojan Djuricic

Contributor, Copyright holder

JustGage

Ryan Hafen

Contributor, Copyright holder

Examples

Keen IO

Contributor, Copyright holder

Dashboard CSS

Joshua Kunst

Contributor, Copyright holder

Examples

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Bryan Lewis

Contributor, Copyright holder

Examples

Jonas Mosbech

Contributor, Copyright holder

StickyTableHeaders

Bob Rudis

Contributor, Copyright holder

Examples

Tomas Sardyha

Contributor, Copyright holder

Sly

Sencha Labs

Contributor, Copyright holder

Raphael.js

Lea Verou

Contributor, Copyright holder

Prism

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.6.2

Previously maintained by Carson Sievert (0.6.0 to 0.6.1) and Richard Iannone (0.5.1.1 to 0.5.2).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.2.0 to 0.6.1

Releases (11)

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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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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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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
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-05-18
Total releases: 11 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Download size: 298 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("flexdashboard")

Format

Aden-Buie, G., Posit Software, PBC, Allaire, J., Almsaeed, A., Baranovskiy, D., Borges, B., Bossart, N., Cheng, J., Djuricic, B., Hafen, R., Iannone, R., Keen IO, , Kunst, J., Lewis, B., Mosbech, J., Rudis, B., Sardyha, T., Sencha Labs, , Sievert, C., & Verou, L. (2026). flexdashboard: R Markdown Format for Flexible Dashboards (Version 0.6.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.flexdashboard

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for flexdashboard version 0.6.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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