R Observatory: Metrics for gitdown version 0.1.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gitdown

0.1.6Package record

Turn Your Git Commit Messages into a HTML Book

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

97.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sébastien RochetteCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Read all commit messages of your local git repository and sort them according to tags or specific text pattern into chapters of a HTML book using 'bookdown'. The git history book presentation helps organisms required to testify for every changes in their source code, in relation to features requests.

Changes in 0.1.6

Ask for Pandoc > 2.0 as for new {rmarkdown}
Use 'main' branch as default for the repository example
Fix unit test for new 'rmarkdown' version
Fix unit test for date-time check due to changing timezone

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gitdown", 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("Thinkr-open/gitdown")

Development version from Thinkr-open/gitdown. 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-gitdown

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-gitdown

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-gitdown

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 0.1.6

READMEYes · 503 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 91%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

ab-create-git_down HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,267 · ~9/day · ~272/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33130 days

83090 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on63 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

thinkr-open/gitdown ↗Organization: ThinkR-open

36Stars

3Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

68Commits

6Commit identities

gitbookdowngitbook

68 commits · Last activity 2024-02-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 79%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-28 · 342026-07-11 · 36

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thinkr-open/gitdown on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gitdown adds 44 packages (25 with compiled code, 35 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (12)

attempt bookdown dplyr git2r knitr magrittr purrr rmarkdownstatsstringi tidyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Sébastien Rochette

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2021)

Cervan Girard

Author

ThinkR

Copyright holder

Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier

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Releases (6)

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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-03-05 · current release · diff ↗
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2022-01-17 · diff ↗
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2021-07-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-10
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 445 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gitdown")

Format

Rochette, S., Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier, ThinkR, & Girard, C. (2022). gitdown: Turn Your Git Commit Messages into a HTML Book (Version 0.1.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gitdown

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 gitdown version 0.1.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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