knitr
1.51A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R
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Overview
About
Provides a general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R using Literate Programming techniques.
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Code health
Yes
Tests · ratio 0.17
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Coverage · measured lines
100%
Documentation · exports
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Dependencies · direct
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Documentation
Documentation
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- Examples that run
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 89%
- Return-value docs
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- References docs
- 43%
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Repository
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Dependencies
Declared dependencies
35 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (1)
R >= 3.6.0
Imports (6)
evaluatehighrmethodstoolsxfun (>=
0.52)yaml
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none
Suggests (31)
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none
Reverse dependencies
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2,810indirect
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Package metadata
- First published
- 2012-01-17
- Total releases
- 75 / 14 yrs
- License
- GPL
- Minimum R
- ≥ 3.6.0
- Download size
- 472 KB
- Installed size
- not tracked yet
- With dependencies
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