glossary

1.0.0

Glossaries for Markdown and Quarto Documents

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3.6Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Lisa DeBruineFirst published 2023-05-301 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Add glossaries to markdown and quarto documents by tagging individual words. Definitions can be provided inline or in a separate file.

Install

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

install.packages("glossary", 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("debruine/glossary")

Development version from debruine/glossary. 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-glossary

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

# 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-glossary

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ debruine/glossary

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License CC-BY-4.0 · 31 commits · Last activity 2023-11-06 · 0% stars, 30d

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cran-comments.md

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

kableExtra knitr markdown rvest xml2 yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

covr rmarkdown testthat

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People & History

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Maintainer (1)

Lisa DeBruine

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Lisa DeBruine

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Lisa DeBruine

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-30
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Download size: 50 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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