R Observatory: Metrics for highr version 0.12

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

highr

0.12Package record

Syntax Highlighting for R Source Code

8packages dependsuggested by 4

12.9Mdownloads / year

75.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides syntax highlighting for R source code. Currently it supports LaTeX and HTML output. Source code of other languages is supported via Andre Simon's highlight package (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight).

Install

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

install.packages("highr", 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("yihui/highr")

Development version from yihui/highr. 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-highr

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-highr

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-highr

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: 1.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.12

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · does not mention 0.12Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 50%1 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

12.9M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #60 · ~35.3K/day · ~1.1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

956.4K30 days

3M90 days

12.9M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on235.5K r2u135 autocran1.5M conda_forge4.8K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

yihui/highr ↗Account: yihui

48Stars

16Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

167Commits

8Commit identities

rr-packagesyntax-highlightinglatexhtml

167 commits · Last activity 2026-10-19 · Default branch at 0.12.1, ahead of CRAN 0.12 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
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

2025-04-18 · 482026-07-07 · 48

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/yihui/highr 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 (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-03-05
Seen in the repository: .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 1 by its own account · at least 1 crediting it in the message

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

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing highr adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 224 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: xfun 224 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (1)

xfun

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr markdown testit

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

3,403indirect

Imports 8

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

knitr questionr explor commons rainette usedthese shinyCohortBuilder rasciidoc

Suggests, most downloaded first

repr irace manifestoR multiverse

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2013)

Yixuan Qiu

Author

Christopher Gandrud

Contributor · added in 0.4

Qiang Li

Contributor · added in 0.4

Releases (15)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.12Latest
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2026-03-06 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-05-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.10
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2022-12-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.9
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2021-04-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.8
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2019-03-20 · diff ↗
0.7
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2018-06-09 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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0.6
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2016-05-09 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.5.1
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2015-09-18 · diff ↗
0.5
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2015-04-21 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.4.1
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2015-03-29 · diff ↗
0.4
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2014-10-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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2013-10-26 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2013-07-30 · diff ↗
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2013-07-29 · diff ↗
0.1
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2013-07-09
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-07-09
Total releases: 15 / 13 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 13 KB

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Reproducible Research

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("highr")

Format

Xie, Y., Gandrud, C., Li, Q., & Qiu, Y. (2026). highr: Syntax Highlighting for R Source Code (Version 0.12) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.highr

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

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for highr version 0.12 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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