R Observatory: Metrics for gdtools version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gdtools

0.5.1

Font Metrics and Font Management Utilities for R Graphics

10packages depend

1.9Mdownloads / year

84.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by David GohelFirst published 2015-10-2234 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Compute text metrics (width, ascent, descent) using 'Cairo' and 'FreeType', independently of the active graphic device. Font lookup is delegated to 'systemfonts'. Additional utilities let users register 'Google Fonts' or bundled 'Liberation' fonts, check font availability, and assemble 'htmlDependency' objects so that fonts are correctly embedded in 'Shiny' applications, 'R Markdown' documents, and 'htmlwidgets' outputs such as 'ggiraph'.

Install

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

install.packages("gdtools", 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("davidgohel/gdtools")

Development version from davidgohel/gdtools. 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-gdtools

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-gdtools

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-gdtools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.29

84.0%

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
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-03-10
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 665 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 71%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 70%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.9M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #255 · ~5.3K/day · ~161.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

145.4K30 days

518.3K90 days

1.9M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on15.2K r2u123 autocran44.3K conda_forge278 bioconda293 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ davidgohel/gdtools

29Stars

15Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

358Commits

10Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 358 commits · Last activity 2026-06-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-04-08 · 262026-07-07 · 29

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/davidgohel/gdtools on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (5)

fontquiver htmltools Rcpp systemfontstools

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (4)

curl gfontsmethodstestthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

207indirect

cardargus doconv flextable ggfootball ggiraph movedesign munch rvg officer tsmp

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

David Gohel

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

David Gohel

Author, Maintainer

Lionel Henry

Author · added in 0.1.1

Jeroen Ooms

Author

Hadley Wickham

Author

Contributors (1)

Yixuan Qiu

Contributor

Copyright holders (3)

ArData

Copyright holder · added in 0.3.0

R Core Team

Copyright holder · added in 0.1.1

RStudio

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

0.5.1Latest
2026-05-25 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.0
2026-02-09 · diff ↗
0.4.4
2025-10-06 · diff ↗
0.4.3
2025-08-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.2
2025-03-27 · diff ↗
0.4.1
2024-11-04 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2024-08-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.7
2024-03-05 · diff ↗
0.3.6
2024-02-22 · diff ↗
0.3.5
2023-12-09 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2023-10-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.3
2023-03-27 · diff ↗

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0.3.2
2023-03-13 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2023-02-17 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2023-01-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.4
2022-02-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.3
2021-01-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.2
2020-04-03 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2019-10-14 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2019-09-03 · diff ↗
0.1.9
2019-06-18 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.8
2019-04-02 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.7
2018-02-27 · diff ↗
0.1.6
2017-09-01 · diff ↗
0.1.5
2017-08-08 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.4
2017-03-17 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2016-11-11 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2016-11-06 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2016-11-01 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.0.7
2016-02-16 · diff ↗
0.0.6
2015-11-25 · diff ↗
0.0.5
2015-11-12 · diff ↗
0.0.4
2015-10-28 · diff ↗
0.0.3
2015-10-22
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-22
Total releases: 34 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 78 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Gohel, D., ArData, R Core Team, RStudio, Henry, L., Ooms, J., Qiu, Y., & Wickham, H. (2026). gdtools: Font Metrics and Font Management Utilities for R Graphics (Version 0.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gdtools

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gdtools version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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