R Observatory: Metrics for gridmicrotex version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gridmicrotex

0.2.0Package record

Native 'LaTeX' Math Rendering for Grid Graphics

0packages dependsuggested by 1

2.5Kdownloads / year

85.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alim DayimCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Renders 'LaTeX' math equations as native R grid graphics objects (grobs) using the 'MicroTeX' 'C++' library as the layout engine. Produces resolution-independent vector output that works on any R graphics device, with no external 'LaTeX' installation required. Markdown labels and block documents that mix prose formatting with math are also rendered, for use with both 'grid' and 'ggplot2'.

Changes in 0.2.0

LaTeX is read by a new, faster parser that follows TeX's rules, so macros, environments and starred forms work as in LaTeX, and malformed input is drawn with a warning giving its line:col instead of failing. As in TeX, a space after a command is dropped (write \LaTeX{} is), and _, ^, # and & outside math warn.
New input_mode = "document" renders a LaTeX document body, or a whole pasted paper, wrapped at max_width (see vignette("documents")). Markdown is now laid out the same way, so its paragraphs, styled spans and tables stay within their box.
New latex_options(device_math = TRUE) renders $…$ math in base graphics labels.
New load_font() names a font file or an installed family, with its bold and italic files, and available_fonts() lists them. latex_options() takes main_font, sans_font and mono_font, the fonts of the body, \textsf and \texttt. load_math_font(), available_math_fonts() and check_math_fonts() are superseded by load_font() and available_fonts(); they still work.
Text in a font given to load_font() is measured and drawn from the font file, so it looks the same on every device, base pdf() included, where a font file never worked before. Other families are still the device's.
An image that cannot be drawn is now an error saying why, figures load about ten times faster, and many bugs are fixed.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gridmicrotex", 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("adayim/gridmicrotex")

Development version from adayim/gridmicrotex. 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-gridmicrotex

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-gridmicrotex

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 12.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-17

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WARNING6 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-09

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 437 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 22 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 38%8 run in a plain check · 13 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,362 · ~7/day · ~210/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

51630 days

1.2K90 days

2.5K1 year

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Also on164 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

adayim/gridmicrotex ↗Account: adayim

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

269Commits

2Commit identities

269 commits · Last activity 2026-10-24 · Default branch at 0.3.0, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Releases over time

2026-04-18 · 12026-10-05 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/adayim/gridmicrotex 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 2026-10-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-18

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting.covrignore

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-18
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: CLAUDE.md
Commits: at least 147 crediting it in the message
GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-08-23
Pull request: opened by its own account

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 5.540 commits · Oct 2026
Claude Opus 522 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Opus 5.519 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Opus 4.816 commits · Jul 2026
Claude Sonnet 52 commits · Oct 2026

1 more model not listed. Some of these counts are a minimum, because the search stopped before the oldest commits.

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gridmicrotex adds 10 packages (8 with compiled code, 5.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (8)

commonmarkgrDevicesgridRcpp systemfontstoolsutilsxml2

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp systemfonts

Suggests (13)

ggplot2 grImport2 jpeg knitr png ragg rmarkdown rsvg S7 svglite testthat textshaping vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

forestploter

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Alim Dayim

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2026)

Bundled math font authors

Copyright holder

See inst/COPYRIGHTS for the full list of authors of the bundled math fonts.

Nano Michael

Copyright holder

Author of included 'MicroTeX' library

Releases (8)

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0.2.0Latest
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2026-10-04 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
check_fonts

added 1 export
available_fonts
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listed once in CRAN's queue
Seen in one reading of CRAN's incoming queue, at 2026-10-04 20:43 UTC, so it stayed less than the time between readings.
0.1.1
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2026-08-24 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2026-08-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
GeomMarkdown, available_highlighters, check_math_fonts, element_markdown, geom_markdown, grid.markdown, load_math_font, markdown_box_grob, markdown_grob, markdown_style, md_style, register_highlighter
0.0.5
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2026-07-21 · diff ↗
0.0.4
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2026-06-01 · diff ↗
0.0.3
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2026-05-18 · diff ↗
0.0.2
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2026-05-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
grobMark
0.0.1
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2026-05-08
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 26 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-08
Total releases: 8 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 2.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gridmicrotex")

Format

Dayim, A., Bundled math font authors, , & Michael, N. (2026). gridmicrotex: Native 'LaTeX' Math Rendering for Grid Graphics (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gridmicrotex

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gridmicrotex version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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