R Observatory: Metrics for greekLetters version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

greekLetters

1.0.4

Routines for Writing Greek Letters and Mathematical Symbols on the 'RStudio' and 'RGui'

1packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

41.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin Allan Sales RodriguesFirst published 2020-07-063 releasesCRAN page ↗

An implementation of functions to display Greek letters on the 'RStudio' (include subscript and superscript indexes) and 'RGui' (without subscripts and only with superscript 1, 2 or 3; because 'RGui' doesn't support printing the corresponding Unicode characters as a string: all subscripts ranging from 0 to 9 and superscripts equal to 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9). The functions in this package do not work properly on the R console. Characters are used via Unicode and encoded as UTF-8 to ensure that they can be viewed on all operating systems. Other characters related to mathematics are included, such as the infinity symbol. All this accessible from very simple commands. This is a package that can be used for teaching purposes, the statistical notation for hypothesis testing can be written from this package and so it is possible to build a course from the 'swirlify' package. Another utility of this package is to create new summary functions that contain the functional form of the model adjusted with the Greek letters, thus making the transition from statistical theory to practice easier. In addition, it is a natural extension of the 'clisymbols' package.

Install

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

install.packages("greekLetters", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-greekletters

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-greekLetters

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-greekLetters

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 59 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.04

41.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (3)

stringrstatsassertthat

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

clisymbols swirlify swirl testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

diagL1

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Kevin Allan Sales Rodrigues

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Kevin Allan Sales Rodrigues

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-07-06
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 7.5 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Sales Rodrigues, K. A. (2024). greekLetters: Routines for Writing Greek Letters and Mathematical Symbols on the 'RStudio' and 'RGui' (Version 1.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.greekLetters

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for greekLetters version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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