R Observatory: Metrics for formatters version 0.5.12

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

formatters

0.5.12

ASCII Formatting for Values and Tables

16packages depend

91.1Kdownloads / year

92.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Joe ZhuFirst published 2022-03-2914 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

We provide a framework for rendering complex tables to ASCII, and a set of formatters for transforming values or sets of values into ASCII-ready display strings.

Install

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

install.packages("formatters", 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("insightsengineering/formatters")

Development version from insightsengineering/formatters. 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-formatters

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-formatters

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-formatters

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.36

92.8%

Coverage · measured lines

99%

Documentation · exports

6

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 437 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

91.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,314 · ~249/day · ~7.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

7.4K30 days

23.7K90 days

91.1K1 year

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Also on622 r2u18 autocran2.1K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ insightsengineering/formatters

20Stars

8Forks

27Open issues

0Open PRs

23Releases

359Commits

25Contributors

matrixformattabler

359 commits · Last activity 2026-07-25 · +5.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-01 · 192026-08-04 · 20

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/insightsengineering/formatters on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsGitLab CI

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesCODEOWNERS

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10methods

Imports (5)

checkmategridhtmltools lifecycle stringi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

digest dplyr gt huxtable knitr processx r2rtf rmarkdown sass testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

7indirect

junco rlistings rtables rtables.officer aNCA autoslider.core chevron mcradds teal.modules.clinical tern tern.gee tern.mmrm uteals flextable tables teal.reporter

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Joe Zhu

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.2

Authors (5)

Joe Zhu

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.2

Gabriel Becker

Author

Davide Garolini

Author · added in 0.4.0

Adrian Waddell

Author

Emily de la Rua

Author · added in 0.5.2

Contributors (1)

Abinaya Yogasekaram

Contributor · added in 0.5.2

Copyright holders (1)

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.1

Funders (1)

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.1

Listed in earlier versions (1)

F. Hoffmann-La Roche

no longer listed · 0.2.0

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.12Latest
2025-12-08 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2025-04-09 · diff ↗
0.5.10
2025-01-09 · diff ↗
0.5.9
2024-09-12 · diff ↗
0.5.8
2024-06-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.6
2024-04-15 · diff ↗
0.5.5
2023-12-06 · diff ↗
0.5.2
2023-08-25 · diff ↗
0.5.0
2023-05-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.1
2023-04-15 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2023-03-02 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2022-06-09 · diff ↗

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0.3.1
2022-05-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.0
2022-03-29
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-03-29
Total releases: 14 / 4 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 2.3 MB / 11 files
Download size: 2.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Zhu, J., F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Becker, G., Garolini, D., Waddell, A., Yogasekaram, A., & de la Rua, E. (2025). formatters: ASCII Formatting for Values and Tables (Version 0.5.12) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.formatters

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for formatters version 0.5.12 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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