R Observatory: Metrics for liteformats version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

liteformats

0.2.0Package record

Lightweight Output Formats for 'litedown'

0packages depend

657downloads / year

80.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nan XiaoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A collection of lightweight, minimalist output formats and templates for 'litedown' by Xie (2026) doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.litedown, including resumes, cover letters, and other common document types. Documents are rendered with HTML and CSS and can be printed to PDF with a 'Chromium'-based browser, without requiring 'Pandoc' or a 'LaTeX' installation.

Changes in 0.2.0

New features

Added liteformats::include_graphics() to embed local images as base64 data URIs in raw HTML that can be emitted directly from litedown code chunks. Added a bundled signature image to the cover letter starter (#20).

Bug fixes

Fixed overly aggressive resume pagination that treated complete experiences and list-based sections as indivisible, leaving large gaps at page bottoms. Resume entries now fill the available page and continue across pages at normal paragraph and list boundaries while retaining compact list indentation (#8).

Improvements

Simplified resume() and cover_letter() to four primary arguments. Secondary metadata, typography, pagination, and PDF controls now live in classed resume_options() and cover_letter_options() objects. The same internal option schema can be reused by future document formats, and the canonical YAML configuration is now checked for unknown names (#12).

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Refactored opt-in Google Fonts loading to use bundled font metadata. Font family names now request the available weights and styles needed for regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic text, prefer variable weight and slant ranges, and omit unsupported combinations. Full CSS v2 URLs remain supported for custom axes and newer families. A maintainer script was added to refresh the catalog without Google API credentials (#10).
Matched resume section divider rules to LaTeX's 0.4 TeX point rule thickness, using a scaled rule to avoid Chromium's 1px minimum for CSS borders in PDF output (#21).

Documentation

Qualified the namespaces in code examples of the README so they become self-contained. Removed configuration, typography, and automation details and redirect to the vignette to reduce duplication (#14).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("liteformats", 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("nanxstats/liteformats")

Development version from nanxstats/liteformats. 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-liteformats

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-liteformats

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-liteformats

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: 1.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK8 OK2026-08-06

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 149 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 7 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

657

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,300 · ~2/day · ~55/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

18930 days

65790 days

6571 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on24 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

nanxstats/liteformats ↗Account: nanxstats

1Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

65Commits

1Commit identities

litedownmarkdownrr-markdownreproducible-research

65 commits · Last activity 2026-09-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-08-05 · 02026-09-11 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nanxstats/liteformats on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-14

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing liteformats adds 3 packages (2 with compiled code, 478 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: xfun 224 KB, commonmark 144 KB, litedown 110 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

litedown xfun

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testit

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Nan Xiao

Ayuhito

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.2.0

google-font-metadata catalog

Yihui Xie

Contributor, Copyright holder

pages.js and pages.css libraries

Releases (2)

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0.2.0Latest
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2026-08-05 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
cover_letter_options, include_graphics, resume_options
0.1.0
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first seen 2026-08-05
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-08-05
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 68 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("liteformats")

Format

Xiao, N., Ayuhito, & Xie, Y. (2026). liteformats: Lightweight Output Formats for 'litedown' (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.liteformats

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 liteformats version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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