R Observatory: Metrics for hexfont version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hexfont

1.0.0

'GNU Unifont' Hex Fonts

1packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

85.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Trevor L. DavisFirst published 2023-02-144 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.42

85.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 569 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,533 · ~9/day · ~272/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16030 days

64590 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on199 r2u24 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ trevorld/hexfont

10Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

29Commits

1Contributors

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

Stars over time

2024-11-16 · 102026-07-07 · 10

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/trevorld/hexfont on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Governance and community (1)

Funding

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

1direct

0indirect

bittermelon

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Trevor L. Davis

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.1

Authors (1)

Trevor L. Davis

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.1

Copyright holders (1)

GNU Unifont authors

Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Trevor L Davis

no longer listed · 0.3.1 to 0.4.0

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.0Latest
2025-03-12 · current release · diff ↗
0.5.1
2024-12-12 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.0
2023-12-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.1
2023-02-14
R
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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 is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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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 v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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