R Observatory: Metrics for pixiedust version 0.9.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pixiedust

0.9.4

Tables so Beautifully Fine-Tuned You Will Believe It's Magic

1packages depend

8.5Kdownloads / year

94.0%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Benjamin NutterFirst published 2015-08-0316 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The introduction of the 'broom' package has made converting model objects into data frames as simple as a single function. While the 'broom' package focuses on providing tidy data frames that can be used in advanced analysis, it deliberately stops short of providing functionality for reporting models in publication-ready tables. 'pixiedust' provides this functionality with a programming interface intended to be similar to 'ggplot2's system of layers with fine tuned control over each cell of the table. Options for output include printing to the console and to the common markdown formats (markdown, HTML, and LaTeX). With a little 'pixiedust' (and happy thoughts) tables can really fly.

Install

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

install.packages("pixiedust", 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("nutterb/pixiedust")

Development version from nutterb/pixiedust. 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-pixiedust

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-pixiedust

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-pixiedust

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

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE 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: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.65

94.0%

Coverage · measured lines

96%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,167 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 7%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

8.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,649 · ~23/day · ~707/mo

Releases R versions

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30030 days

1.1K90 days

8.5K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nutterb/pixiedust

181Stars

15Forks

18Open issues

1Open PRs

9Releases

334Commits

6Contributors

334 commits · Last activity 2025-03-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-03-06 · 1802026-07-07 · 181

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nutterb/pixiedust on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

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

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.2

Imports (8)

broom checkmate htmltools knitr labelVector magrittr reshape2 scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

dplyr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

goldfish

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Benjamin Nutter

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Benjamin Nutter

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

David Kretch

Contributor · added in 0.8.1

Package Timeline

16 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 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-08-03
Total releases: 16 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.2
Download size: 226 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Nutter, B., & Kretch, D. (2023). pixiedust: Tables so Beautifully Fine-Tuned You Will Believe It's Magic (Version 0.9.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pixiedust

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pixiedust version 0.9.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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