R Observatory: Metrics for gfonts version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gfonts

0.2.1Package record

Offline 'Google' Fonts for 'Markdown' and 'Shiny'

3packages dependsuggested by 2

60.2Kdownloads / year

94.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Victor PerrierCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Download 'Google' fonts and generate 'CSS' to use in 'rmarkdown' documents and 'shiny' applications. Some popular fonts are included and ready to use.

Changes in 0.2.1

Fixed the NOTEs about lost braces in the Rd files.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gfonts", 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("dreamRs/gfonts")

Development version from dreamRs/gfonts. 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-gfonts

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-gfonts

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-gfonts

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-01
NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 173 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check (7 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

gfonts HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

60.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,489 · ~165/day · ~5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

8.9K30 days

16.7K90 days

60.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on406 r2u2 autocran82.4K conda_forge307 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

dreamrs/gfonts ↗Organization: dreamRs

115Stars

5Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

89Commits

4Commit identities

rshinyrmarkdownfonts

89 commits · Last activity 2026-09-23

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-08-27 · 1152026-07-07 · 115

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/dreamrs/gfonts on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-23 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-23

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gfonts adds 36 packages (22 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (7)

utilshtmltools shiny crul jsonlite glue crayon

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat vcr covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

indiedown movedesign ggfootball

Suggests, most downloaded first

gdtools cardargus

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Victor Perrier

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2020)

Fanny Meyer

Author

Mario Ranftl

Contributor, Copyright holder

google-webfonts-helper

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.1Latest
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2026-09-23 · 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
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.0
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2023-01-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.3
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2021-09-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.2
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2021-01-11 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2020-05-09
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-09
Total releases: 5 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 0.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gfonts")

Format

Perrier, V., Meyer, F., & Ranftl, M. (2026). gfonts: Offline 'Google' Fonts for 'Markdown' and 'Shiny' (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gfonts

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 gfonts version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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