R Observatory: Metrics for greekLetters version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

greekLetters

1.0.4Package record

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

1packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

41.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin Allan Sales RodriguesCRAN 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.

Changes in 1.0.4

Documentation update to conform with R 4.4.1.
For older revision history diff the code ;-)

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 1.1 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 1.0.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.4Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 0%4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,694 · ~9/day · ~286/mo

Releases R versions

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32530 days

87390 days

3.4K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing greekLetters adds 9 packages (6 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (3)

stringrstatsassertthat

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

clisymbols swirlify swirl testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

diagL1

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Kevin Allan Sales Rodrigues

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.7 (2020)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-10-15 · diff ↗ ·
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print_greeks
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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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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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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

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("greekLetters")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.35566/jbds/rodrigues.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for greekLetters version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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