R Observatory: Metrics for litedown version 0.10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

litedown

0.10

A Lightweight Version of R Markdown

37packages depend

5.1Mdownloads / year

37.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieFirst published 2024-08-2010 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Render R Markdown to Markdown (without using 'knitr'), and Markdown to lightweight HTML or 'LaTeX' documents with the 'commonmark' package (instead of 'Pandoc'). Some missing Markdown features in 'commonmark' are also supported, such as raw HTML or 'LaTeX' blocks, 'LaTeX' math, superscripts, subscripts, footnotes, element attributes, and appendices, but not all 'Pandoc' Markdown features are (or will be) supported. With additional JavaScript and CSS, you can also create HTML slides and articles. This package can be viewed as a trimmed-down version of R Markdown and 'knitr'. It does not aim at rich Markdown features or a large variety of output formats (the primary formats are HTML and 'LaTeX'). Book and website projects of multiple input documents are also supported.

Install

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

install.packages("litedown", 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/litedown")

Development version from yihui/litedown. 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-litedown

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-litedown

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-litedown

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.17

37.1%

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 · 326 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #127 · ~14K/day · ~425.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

464.1K30 days

1.5M90 days

5.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on35.7K r2u27 autocran105.8K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ yihui/litedown

269Stars

18Forks

10Open issues

3Open PRs

10Releases

684Commits

5Contributors

litedownmarkdownrr-markdownr-packagereport-generatorreproducible-research

684 commits · Last activity 2026-08-21 · +2.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-21 · 2252026-08-22 · 269

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/yihui/litedown on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: copilot on 2025-10-29

copilotclaude

Most recent: claude on 2026-05-20

Evidence

copilot: on 2025-10-29 · evidence A, D, PR · sole bot-author seen
claude: on 2026-05-20 · evidence B

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (3)

utilscommonmark xfun

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

rbibutils rstudioapi testit tinyimg tinytex

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

37direct

499indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Tim Taylor

Contributor · added in 0.5

Package Timeline

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

0.10Latest
2026-07-11 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9
2025-12-18 · diff ↗
0.8
2025-11-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.7
2025-04-08 · diff ↗
0.6
2025-02-27 · diff ↗
0.5
2025-01-07 · diff ↗
0.4
2024-11-06 · diff ↗
0.3
2024-10-17 · diff ↗
0.2
2024-09-08 · diff ↗
0.1
2024-08-20
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-08-20
Total releases: 10 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 110 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("litedown")

Format

Xie, Y., & Taylor, T. (2026). litedown: A Lightweight Version of R Markdown (Version 0.10) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.litedown

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

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 litedown version 0.10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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