R Observatory: Metrics for formatdown version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

formatdown

0.2.0

Formatting Numbers in 'rmarkdown' Documents

1packages depend

5.2Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard LaytonFirst published 2022-11-215 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

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

READMEYes · 810 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,299 · ~14/day · ~434/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26730 days

1.2K90 days

5.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ graphdr/formatdown

8Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

272Commits

1Contributors

272 commits · Last activity 2026-05-06

Stars over time

2024-10-10 · 82026-07-07 · 8

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/graphdr/formatdown on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

1direct

0indirect

hydraulics

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Richard Layton

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Richard Layton

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.2.0Latest
2026-05-03 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.4
2024-05-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.3
2024-03-15 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2023-06-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.1
2022-11-21
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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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 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 formatdown version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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