R Observatory: Metrics for formatdown version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

formatdown

0.2.0Package record

Formatting Numbers in 'rmarkdown' Documents

0packages dependsuggested by 1

5.3Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard LaytonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a small set of tools for formatting numbers in R-markdown documents. Convert a numerical vector to character strings in power-of-ten form, decimal form, or measurement-units form; convert symbols for chemical isotopes from hyphenated form to nuclear form; all are math-delimited for rendering as inline equations. Can also convert text into math-delimited text to match the font face and size of math-delimited numbers. Useful for rendering single numbers in inline R code chunks and for rendering columns in tables.

Changes in 0.2.0

new features

New format_nucl() formats chemical isotopes in nuclear notation.
formatdown_options() gains the Z and warn arguments used by format_nucl().

minor improvements and fixes

format_numbers(0, format = "sci") now correctly yields a zero without power-of-ten notation. Likewise for format = "engr" (#10).
In formatdown_options(), multiply_mark can now be set to "\\cdot" (center dot), often used when decimal_mark is a comma.

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("formatdown", 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("graphdr/formatdown")

Development version from graphdr/formatdown. 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-formatdown

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-formatdown

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-formatdown

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 0.2.0

READMEYes · 810 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,811 · ~14/day · ~441/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37530 days

1.2K90 days

5.3K1 year

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Also on87 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

graphdr/formatdown ↗Account: graphdr

8Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

272Commits

1Commit identities

272 commits · Last activity 2026-05-06 · Default branch at 0.2.0.9001, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 63
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-10-10 · 82026-07-07 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/graphdr/formatdown on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-06

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-06

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing formatdown adds 7 packages (5 with compiled code, 8.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, wrapr 552 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

checkmate data.table settings units wrapr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

hydraulics

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Richard Layton

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2022)

Releases (5)

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0.2.0Latest
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2026-05-02 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
format_decimal, format_power, format_units

added 1 export
format_nucl
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.4
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2024-05-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
format_dcml, format_engr, format_numbers, format_sci, formatdown_options
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.3
record
2024-03-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
format_text
0.1.2
record
2023-06-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
format_decimal, format_units
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.1
record
2022-11-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-11-21
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 4.6 KB / 5 files
Download size: 48 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("formatdown")

Format

Layton, R. (2026). formatdown: Formatting Numbers in 'rmarkdown' Documents (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.formatdown

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 formatdown version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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