R Observatory: Metrics for latexdiffr version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

latexdiffr

0.2.0Package record

Diff TeX, 'rmarkdown' or 'quarto' Files Using the 'latexdiff' Utility

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

47.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David Hugh-JonesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Produces a PDF diff of two 'rmarkdown', 'quarto', Sweave or TeX files, using the external 'latexdiff' utility.

Changes in 0.2.0

Added a compile option to (not) compile the diff.tex file to pdf.
Added support for quarto files.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("latexdiffr", 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("hughjonesd/latexdiffr")

Development version from hughjonesd/latexdiffr. 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-latexdiffr

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-latexdiffr

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-latexdiffr

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: 49 s · r-devel-windows-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 0.2.0

READMEYes · 62 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,408 · ~10/day · ~311/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30330 days

94090 days

3.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on69 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hughjonesd/latexdiffr ↗Account: hughjonesd

46Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

201Commits

3Commit identities

rtexdiffrmarkdown

201 commits · Last activity 2025-07-14 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 159
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 28

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 452026-07-07 · 46

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/hughjonesd/latexdiffr on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing latexdiffr adds 3 packages (1 with compiled code, 1.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, rprojroot 58 KB, assertthat 12 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

assertthat fs rprojroot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

tinytex rmarkdown knitr quarto testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

David Hugh-Jones

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Releases (2)

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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
0.2.0Latest
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2024-02-16 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-05-03
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-03
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 516 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("latexdiffr")

Format

Hugh-Jones, D. (2024). latexdiffr: Diff TeX, 'rmarkdown' or 'quarto' Files Using the 'latexdiff' Utility (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.latexdiffr

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 latexdiffr version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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