R Observatory: Metrics for memery version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

memery

0.6.0Package record

Internet Memes for Data Analysts

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

62.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew LeonawiczCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Generates internet memes that optionally include a superimposed inset plot and other atypical features, combining the visual impact of an attention-grabbing meme with graphic results of data analysis. The package differs from related packages that focus on imitating and reproducing standard memes. Some packages do this by interfacing with online meme generators whereas others achieve this natively. This package takes the latter approach. It does not interface with online meme generators or require any authentication with external websites. It reads images directly from local files or via URL and meme generation is done by the package. While this is similar to the 'meme' package available on CRAN, it differs in that the focus is on allowing for non-standard meme layouts and hybrids of memes mixed with graphs. While this package can be used to make basic memes like an online meme generator would produce, it caters primarily to hybrid graph-meme plots where the meme presentation can be seen as a backdrop highlighting foreground graphs of data analysis results. The package also provides support for an arbitrary number of meme text labels with arbitrary size, position and other attributes rather than restricting to the standard top and/or bottom text placement. This is useful for proper aesthetic interleaving of plots of data between meme image backgrounds and overlain text labels. The package offers a selection of templates for graph placement and appearance with respect to the underlying meme. Graph templates also permit additional template-specific customization. Animated gif support is provided but this is optional and functional only if the 'magick' package is installed. 'magick' is not required unless gif functionality is desired.

Changes in 0.6.0

Documentation updates.
Minor code updates and fixes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("memery", 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("leonawicz/memery")

Development version from leonawicz/memery. 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-memery

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-memery

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,385 · ~9/day · ~285/mo

memery Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45030 days

1K90 days

3.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

leonawicz/memery ↗Account: leonawicz

16Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

208Commits

4Commit identities

data-visualizationmemesr-packager-shiny

208 commits · Last activity 2024-09-11

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/leonawicz/memery 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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-09-11

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing memery adds 62 packages (31 with compiled code, 49 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (1)

showtext

Imports (13)

sysfontsgridpng jpeg Cairo ggplot2 cowplot magrittr purrr shiny shinycssloaders shinyBS colourpicker

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat knitr rmarkdown magick gifski

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)

Matthew Leonawicz

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2017)

Releases (12)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.6.0Latest
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2024-09-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-02-15
0.5.6
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2021-02-15 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-02-04
check problems were not corrected in time
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2021-01-25 · 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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2019-04-19 · diff ↗

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0.5.0
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2018-05-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
car_shiny
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-02-13 · diff ↗
0.4.1
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2018-02-12 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2018-02-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
memeApp, meme_gif
0.3.1
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2017-11-14 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2017-11-09
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-09
Total releases: 12 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 73 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("memery")

Format

Leonawicz, M. (2024). memery: Internet Memes for Data Analysts (Version 0.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.memery

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for memery version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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