R Observatory: Metrics for lofifonts version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lofifonts

0.1.3Package record

Text Rendering with Bitmap and Vector Fonts

0packages depend

5.8Kdownloads / year

4.8%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mike ChengCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Alternate font rendering is useful when rendering text to novel graphics outputs where modern font rendering is not available or where bespoke text positioning is required. Bitmap and vector fonts allow for custom layout and rendering using pixel coordinates and line drawing. Formatted text is created as a data.frame of pixel coordinates (for bitmap fonts) or stroke coordinates (for vector fonts). All text can be easily previewed as a matrix or raster image. A selection of fonts is included with this package.

Changes in 0.1.3

Fixes for CRAN: return value for print
Adjust class name for data.frame output for better compatibility with isocubes package.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("lofifonts", 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("coolbutuseless/lofifonts")

Development version from coolbutuseless/lofifonts. 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-lofifonts

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-lofifonts

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-lofifonts

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘bittermelon.R’ ‘lofi.Rd’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'bittermelon.R' 'lofi.Rd'

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,390 · ~16/day · ~485/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32430 days

88590 days

5.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on83 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

coolbutuseless/lofifonts ↗Account: coolbutuseless

11Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

14Commits

1Commit identities

14 commits · Last activity 2025-02-20 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.3.9001, ahead of CRAN 0.1.3 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-07-12 · 92026-08-12 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/coolbutuseless/lofifonts on 2026-10-11.

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 (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Dev Container

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing lofifonts adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown bittermelon ggplot2 testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Mike Cheng

June Choe

Contributor

Contributed character positioning code

GNU Unifont authors

Copyright holder, tyd

Creators of 'unifont'

Frederic Cambus

Copyright holder, tyd

Creator of 'spleen' font

Scott Fial

Copyright holder, tyd

Creator of 'Tamsyn' font upon which 'Tamzen' is based

Anders Hoff

Copyright holder, tyd

Creator of 'gridfont' font

Suraj Kurapati

Copyright holder, tyd

Creator of 'Tamzen' font

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.3Latest
record
2024-11-08 · current release
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-08
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Copyright: The included 'spleen' font is BSD licensed and Copyright (c) 2018-2024, Frederic Cambus. The included 'Tamzen' font is free to distribute and Copyright 2011 Suraj N. Kurapati (it is based upon the 'Tamsyn' font which is also free to distribute Copyright 2010 Scott Fial) The included 'unifont' font is SIL Open Font Licensed, and is Copyright the GNU unifont authors. The included 'gridfont' is MIT licensed is Copyright (c) 2019 Anders Hoff. See 'COPYRIGHTS' file for more details.
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 2.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("lofifonts")

Format

Cheng, M., GNU Unifont authors, Cambus, F., Choe, J., Fial, S., Hoff, A., & Kurapati, S. (2024). lofifonts: Text Rendering with Bitmap and Vector Fonts (Version 0.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.lofifonts

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 lofifonts version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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