R Observatory: Metrics for parseLatex version 0.4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

parseLatex

0.4.4Package record

Parse 'LaTeX' Code

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

59.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Duncan MurdochCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Exports an enhanced version of the tools::parseLatex() function to handle 'LaTeX' syntax more accurately. Also includes numerous functions for searching and modifying 'LaTeX' source.

Changes in 0.4.4

Improved support for syntax of \let and \def.
Fixed errors in C code as requested by CRAN (protection

issues detected by rchk and "const char *" modification

detected by new gcc.)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("parseLatex", 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("dmurdoch/parseLatex")

Development version from dmurdoch/parseLatex. 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-parselatex

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-parseLatex

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: 2.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-19
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.4

READMEYes · 147 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 35includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%26 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 79%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 97%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

The parseLatex package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,578 · ~6/day · ~184/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20730 days

62390 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on365 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

dmurdoch/parselatex ↗Account: dmurdoch

3Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

149Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 149 commits · Last activity 2026-07-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dmurdoch/parselatex on 2026-10-25.

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)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-18

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

kableExtra knitr rmarkdown 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 (2)

Duncan Murdoch

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2025)

The R Core Team

Contributor, Copyright holder

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.4Latest
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2025-06-06 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.1
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2025-06-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
is_Tabular

added 50 exports
columnOption<-, envName<-, ACTIVE, ALIGN, COMMENT, ESCAPE, IGNORE, INVALID, LBRACE, LETTER, MATH, NEWLINE, OTHER, PARAM, RBRACE, SPACE, SUB, SUPER, columnOption, drop_caption, find_block, find_caption, find_general, flatten_itemlists, get_items, get_range, get_ranges, index_to_path, insert_values, is_catcode and 20 more
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.0
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2025-02-20 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2025-02-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-02-11
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 99 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("parseLatex")

Format

Murdoch, D., & The R Core Team. (2026). parseLatex: Parse 'LaTeX' Code (Version 0.4.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.parseLatex

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 parseLatex version 0.4.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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