R Observatory: Metrics for pixiedust version 0.9.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pixiedust

0.9.4Package record

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

0packages dependsuggested by 1

7.2Kdownloads / year

94.0%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Benjamin NutterCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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. 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-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). 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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) sprinkle_colnames.Rd:26-28: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) sprinkle_colnames.Rd:29-31: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) tidy_levels_labels.Rd:62: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) tidy_levels_labels.Rd:63-68: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) tidy_levels_labels.Rd:69-73: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) tidy_levels_labels.Rd:74-77: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) tidy_levels_labels.Rd:78-83: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  pixiedust/tests/testthat/test-get_dust_part.R (.Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.4

READMEYes · 1,167 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileNo

Help pages: 55 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%9 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 18%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 7%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

7.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,381 · ~20/day · ~597/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49230 days

1.5K90 days

7.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on89 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

nutterb/pixiedust ↗Account: nutterb

181Stars

15Forks

18Open issues

1Open PRs

9Releases

334Commits

6Commit identities

334 commits · Last activity 2023-10-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-06 · 1802026-07-07 · 181

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nutterb/pixiedust on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2018-01-18

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pixiedust adds 41 packages (24 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

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

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

goldfish

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Benjamin Nutter

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2015)

David Kretch

Contributor · added in 0.8.1

Releases (16)

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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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2023-10-10 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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
0.8.6
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2019-01-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
knit_print.dust, knit_print.dust_list
0.8.5
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2018-07-16 · diff ↗
0.8.4
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2018-06-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
gaze
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2018-05-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.8.2
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2018-02-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
fixed_header_css, knit_print.dust, knit_print.dust_list, sanitize_latex, sprinkle_caption_number, sprinkle_fixed_header, sprinkle_html_preserve, sprinkle_merge
0.8.1
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2017-09-16 · diff ↗
0.8.0
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2017-08-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 31 exports
get_dust_part, is_valid_color, is_valid_color_single, pixiemap, pval_string, sprinkle_align, sprinkle_background, sprinkle_bg, sprinkle_bg_pattern, sprinkle_bookdown, sprinkle_border, sprinkle_border_collapse, sprinkle_caption, sprinkle_discrete, sprinkle_float, sprinkle_fn, sprinkle_font, sprinkle_gradient, sprinkle_height, sprinkle_hhline, sprinkle_justify, sprinkle_label, sprinkle_longtable, sprinkle_na_string, sprinkle_pad, sprinkle_replace, sprinkle_rotate_degree, sprinkle_round, sprinkle_sanitize, sprinkle_tabcolsep and 1 more
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.7.0
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2016-04-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
medley_all_borders, pixieply
0.6.1
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2016-01-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
%<>%, get_pixie_count, increment_pixie_count, set_pixie_count
0.5.0
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2015-10-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
medley_bw, medley_model, redust, sprinkle_table
0.1.1
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2015-08-03
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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 · relicensed from MIT + file LICENSE in 0.8.2
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.2
Download size: 226 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pixiedust")

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

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 pixiedust version 0.9.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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