R Observatory: Metrics for namedropR version 2.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CRAN requires the check problems on this package to be fixed before 2026-09-04 or it will be archived.

namedropR

2.4.1

Create Visual Citations for Presentations and Posters

0packages depend

8.4Kdownloads / year

69.9%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christian A. GebhardFirst published 2022-01-186 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides 'visual citations' containing the metadata of a scientific paper and a 'QR' code. A 'visual citation' is a banner containing title, authors, journal and year of a publication. This package can create such banners based on 'BibTeX' and 'BibLaTeX' references or call the reference metadata from 'Crossref'-API. The banners include a QR code pointing to the 'DOI'. The resulting HTML object or PNG image can be included in a presentation to point the audience to good resources for further reading. Styling is possible via predefined designs or via custom 'CSS'. This package is not intended as replacement for proper reference manager packages, but a tool to enrich scientific presentation slides and conference posters.

Install

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

install.packages("namedropR", 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("nucleic-acid/namedropR")

Development version from nucleic-acid/namedropR. 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-namedropr

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-namedropR

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-namedropR

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

Health

CRAN checks

5ERROR8NOTE

Failing flavors

ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-macos-arm64
NOTE r-release-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.63

69.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-07-11
0 OK · 11 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-09
0 OK · 13 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
0 OK · 12 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 977 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 33%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

8.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,272 · ~23/day · ~696/mo

Releases R versions

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24530 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nucleic-acid/namedropr

59Stars

5Forks

5Open issues

2Open PRs

8Releases

317Commits

4Contributors

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317 commits · Last activity 2022-12-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-04-22 · 582026-07-07 · 59

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nucleic-acid/namedropr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

bib2df dplyr htmltools lubridate qrcode R.utils readr stringr webshot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rcrossref rmarkdown testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Christian A. Gebhard

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Christian A. Gebhard

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

Lukas Wallrich

Contributor · added in 2.4.1

Matthew T. Warkentin

Contributor · added in 2.4.1

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Gebhard

no longer listed · 2.1.1 to 2.3.3

Christian A.

no longer listed · 2.4.1

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.4.1Latest
2022-08-28 · current release · diff ↗
2.3.3
2022-05-18 · diff ↗
2.3.2
2022-05-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.2.3
2022-02-13 · diff ↗
2.2.1
2022-01-27 · diff ↗
2.1.1
2022-01-18
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-01-18
Total releases: 6 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 938 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("namedropR")

Format

Gebhard, C. A., Wallrich, L., & Warkentin, M. T. (2022). namedropR: Create Visual Citations for Presentations and Posters (Version 2.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.namedropR

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 namedropR version 2.4.1 [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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