R Observatory: Metrics for pillar version 1.11.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pillar

1.11.1

Coloured Formatting for Columns

156packages depend

20.2Mdownloads / year

83.4%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kirill MüllerFirst published 2017-11-2034 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides 'pillar' and 'colonnade' generics designed for formatting columns of data using the full range of colours provided by modern terminals.

Install

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

install.packages("pillar", 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("r-lib/pillar")

Development version from r-lib/pillar. 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-pillar

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-pillar

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-pillar

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

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR12OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-release-macos-arm64

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.73

83.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-04-27
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 207 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 81%
Return-value docs: 23%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

20.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17 · ~55.3K/day · ~1.7M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7M30 days

5.1M90 days

20.2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on220.4K r2u180 autocran1.9M conda_forge2.2K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/pillar

182Stars

43Forks

31Open issues

10Open PRs

33Releases

2,851Commits

22Contributors

rcolour

2,851 commits · Last activity 2026-08-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-04 · 1812026-07-07 · 182

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/pillar on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Show all practices

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

CODEOWNERS

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-04-21

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-04-21

Evidence

claude: on 2026-04-21 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

cli glue lifecycle rlang utf8 (>= 1.1.0)utilsvctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (21)

bit64 DBI debugme DiagrammeR dplyr formattable ggplot2 knitr lubridate nanotime nycflights13 palmerpenguins rmarkdown scales stringisurvivaltestthat tibble units vdiffr withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

156direct

7,995indirect

and 108 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Kirill Müller

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Kirill Müller

Author, Maintainer

Hadley Wickham

Author

Copyright holders (1)

RStudio

Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Kirill M\u00fcller

no longer listed · 1.4.3 to 1.11.1

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.11.1Latest
2025-09-17 · current release · diff ↗
1.11.0
2025-07-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.10.2
2025-04-05 · diff ↗
1.10.1
2025-01-07 · diff ↗
1.10.0
2024-12-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.9.0
2023-03-22 · diff ↗
1.8.1
2022-08-19 · diff ↗
1.8.0
2022-07-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.7.0
2022-02-01 · diff ↗
1.6.5
2022-01-25 · diff ↗
1.6.4
2021-10-18 · diff ↗

Show 28 earlier events

1.6.3
2021-09-26 · diff ↗
1.6.2
2021-07-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.6.1
2021-05-16 · diff ↗
1.6.0
2021-04-13 · diff ↗
1.5.1
2021-03-05 · diff ↗
1.5.0
2021-02-22 · diff ↗
1.4.7
2020-11-20 · diff ↗
1.4.6
2020-07-10 · diff ↗
1.4.5
2020-07-09 · diff ↗
1.4.4
2020-05-05 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.4.3
2019-12-20 · diff ↗
1.4.2
2019-06-29 · diff ↗
1.4.1
2019-05-28 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2019-05-11 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.3.1
2018-12-15 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2018-07-14 · diff ↗
1.2.3
2018-05-25 · diff ↗
1.2.2
2018-04-26 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.2.1
2018-02-27 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2018-02-26 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2018-01-14 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2017-11-27 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2017-11-20
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-20
Total releases: 34 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 400 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("pillar")

Format

Müller, K., RStudio, & Wickham, H. (2025). pillar: Coloured Formatting for Columns (Version 1.11.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pillar

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pillar version 1.11.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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