R Observatory: Metrics for metapost version 1.0-6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metapost

1.0-6

Interface to 'MetaPost'

1packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

31.4%test coverage

10/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul MurrellFirst published 2019-06-241 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides an interface to 'MetaPost' (Hobby, 1998) http://www.tug.org/docs/metapost/mpman.pdf. There are functions to generate an R description of a 'MetaPost' curve, functions to generate 'MetaPost' code from an R description, functions to process 'MetaPost' code, and functions to read solved 'MetaPost' paths back into R.

Install

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

install.packages("metapost", 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("pmur002/metapost")

Development version from pmur002/metapost. 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-metapost

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-metapost

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-metapost

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

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR2NOTE10OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
ERROR r-release-macos-arm64

Slowest check: 54 s · r-release-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.10

31.4%

Coverage · measured lines

87%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-03-10
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 6 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 33%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,720 · ~6/day · ~179/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16330 days

59390 days

2.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ pmur002/metapost

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

45Commits

1Contributors

45 commits · Last activity 2020-04-29

Stars over time

2018-10-02 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/pmur002/metapost on 2026-08-09.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

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none

Suggests (1)

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Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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Listed in earlier versions (1)

Paul Murrell

no longer listed · 1.0-6

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0-6Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2019-06-24
Total releases: 1 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 11 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for metapost version 1.0-6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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