R Observatory: Metrics for latex2exp version 0.9.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

latex2exp

0.9.8

Use LaTeX Expressions in Plots

46packages depend

199.9Kdownloads / year

75.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Stefano MeschiariFirst published 2015-07-0212 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Parses and converts LaTeX math formulas to R's plotmath expressions, used to enter mathematical formulas and symbols to be rendered as text, axis labels, etc. throughout R's plotting system.

Install

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

install.packages("latex2exp", 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("stefano-meschiari/latex2exp")

Development version from stefano-meschiari/latex2exp. 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-latex2exp

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-latex2exp

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-latex2exp

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.30

75.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

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

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 75%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

199.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #971 · ~548/day · ~16.7K/mo

Releases R versions

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12.2K30 days

43.4K90 days

199.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ stefano-meschiari/latex2exp

193Stars

11Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

140Commits

5Contributors

latexrplotmath-expressionslatex-formulascranggplot2

140 commits · Last activity 2024-08-16 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-18 · 1882026-07-07 · 193

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/stefano-meschiari/latex2exp on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

toolstestthat waldo knitr ggplot2 rmarkdown purrr tibble reactable htmltools RCurl rlang dplyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

46direct

4indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Stefano Meschiari

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Stefano Meschiari

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.9.6
2022-11-28 · diff ↗
0.9.5
2022-09-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.9.4
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0.9.3
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0.9.0
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-03-18 · 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
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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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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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0.3.1
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2015-07-02
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-02
Total releases: 12 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 963 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("latex2exp")

Format

Meschiari, S. (2026). latex2exp: Use LaTeX Expressions in Plots (Version 0.9.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.latex2exp

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for latex2exp version 0.9.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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