R Observatory: Metrics for pagedown version 0.25

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pagedown

0.25Package record

Paginate the HTML Output of R Markdown with CSS for Print

6packages dependsuggested by 11

212Kdownloads / year

18.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Use the paged media properties in CSS and the JavaScript library 'paged.js' to split the content of an HTML document into discrete pages. Each page can have its page size, page numbers, margin boxes, and running headers, etc. Applications of this package include books, letters, reports, papers, business cards, resumes, and posters.

Changes in 0.25

Fixed an issue where figures inserted using Markdown syntax with a bookdown identifier (#fig:) were not included in the List of Figures when using Pandoc 3 (thanks, @remlapmot, #347).
chrome_print() no longer treats HTTP errors for sub-resources (e.g., a missing favicon.ico, images, or fonts) as fatal — only errors for the main document raise an error, while sub-resource failures now emit a warning (thanks, @remlapmot, #347).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pagedown", 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("rstudio/pagedown")

Development version from rstudio/pagedown. 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-pagedown

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-pagedown

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-pagedown

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: 57 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.25

READMEYes · 404 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.25Citation fileNo

Help pages: 11 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 10%
Documented parameters: 30%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 18%

How these are measured

Downloads

212K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #899 · ~581/day · ~17.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

18K30 days

47.1K90 days

212K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.3K r2u4 autocran2.2K conda_forge81 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/pagedown ↗Organization: rstudio

926Stars

123Forks

86Open issues

8Open PRs

25Releases

452Commits

16Commit identities

rr-packagecsstypesettingpaged-mediahtmlprintingpdf

452 commits · Last activity 2026-08-28 · -0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.25.1, ahead of CRAN 0.25 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-03 · 9072026-10-19 · 926

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/pagedown 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 (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-28 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pagedown adds 38 packages (21 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (10)

rmarkdown bookdown htmltools jsonlite later processx servr httpuv xfun websocket

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

promises testit xaringan pdftools revealjs covr xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

3indirect

Imports 6

Suggested by 11

Show all 17 packagesHide all 17 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

dlookr tall iheiddown Spectran valdrViz unhcrdown

Suggests, most downloaded first

mlr3fairness surveyframe R4VN accessr pcutils chronicle trackdown ukbflow roughnet DOEpro roughsf

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2019)

Romain Lesur

Author, Copyright holder

Xianying Tan

Author · added in 0.11

Brent Thorne

Author · added in 0.3

Zulko

Contributor

poster-relaxed.css in resources/css/

Christophe Dervieux

Contributor · added in 0.2

Adam Hyde

Contributor

paged.js in resources/js/

Min-Zhong Lu

Contributor

resume.css in resources/css/

Atsushi Yasumoto

Contributor · added in 0.3

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.21

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio, Inc.

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.8

RStudio, PBC

no longer listed · 0.9 to 0.20

Releases (25)

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thesis_paged
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Package metadata

First published: 2019-01-02
Total releases: 25 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 249 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pagedown")

Format

Xie, Y., Posit Software, PBC, Zulko, Dervieux, C., Hyde, A., Lesur, R., Lu, M., Tan, X., Thorne, B., & Yasumoto, A. (2026). pagedown: Paginate the HTML Output of R Markdown with CSS for Print (Version 0.25) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pagedown

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 pagedown version 0.25 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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