R Observatory: Metrics for hexfont version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hexfont

1.0.0Package record

'GNU Unifont' Hex Fonts

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.4Kdownloads / year

85.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Trevor L. DavisCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Contains most of the hex font files from the 'GNU Unifont Project' https://unifoundry.com/unifont/ compressed by 'xz'. 'GNU Unifont' is a duospaced bitmap font that attempts to cover all the official Unicode glyphs plus several of the artificial scripts in the '(Under-)ConScript Unicode Registry' https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/. Provides a convenience function for loading in several of them at the same time as a 'bittermelon' bitmap font object for easy rendering of the glyphs in an 'R' terminal or graphics device.

Changes in 1.0.0

Update examples to not use the R 4.1 pipe (so the package works on R 4.0) (#12).
unifont()'s cache argument now defaults to getOption("unifont.cache", NULL) and if cache = NULL we now read in a cache file if it exists but if it does not exist then we don't write a cache file.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("hexfont", 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("trevorld/hexfont")

Development version from trevorld/hexfont. 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-hexfont

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-hexfont

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-hexfont

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 1.0.0

READMEYes · 569 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to hexfont HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,923 · ~9/day · ~283/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28130 days

74890 days

3.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on100 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

trevorld/hexfont ↗Account: trevorld

10Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

29Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 29 commits · Last activity 2026-05-09

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-11-16 · 102026-07-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/trevorld/hexfont 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 (2)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing hexfont adds 4 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: cli 629 KB, bittermelon 529 KB, Unicode 248 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (3)

bittermelontoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr oblicubes rmarkdown testthat Unicode

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

bittermelon

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Trevor L. Davis

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.1

GNU Unifont authors

Copyright holder

Maintainer since 0.3.1 (2023)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Trevor L Davis

no longer listed · 0.3.1 to 0.4.0

Releases (4)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.0Latest
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2025-03-12 · current release · diff ↗
0.5.1
record
2024-12-12 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.0
record
2023-12-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
unifont_version
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.1
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2023-02-14
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-14
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 4.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("hexfont")

Format

Davis, T. L., & GNU Unifont authors. (2025). hexfont: 'GNU Unifont' Hex Fonts (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hexfont

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hexfont version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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