R Observatory: Metrics for printr version 0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

printr

0.3

Automatically Print R Objects to Appropriate Formats According to the 'knitr' Output Format

12packages depend

35.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieFirst published 2017-05-194 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Extends the S3 generic function knit_print() in 'knitr' to automatically print some objects using an appropriate format such as Markdown or LaTeX. For example, data frames are automatically printed as tables, and the help() pages can also be rendered in 'knitr' documents.

Install

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

install.packages("printr", 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("yihui/printr")

Development version from yihui/printr. 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-printr

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-printr

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-printr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 243 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 0%

Downloads

35.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,257 · ~97/day · ~3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

80030 days

3.5K90 days

35.5K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ yihui/printr

119Stars

21Forks

13Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

82Commits

2Contributors

knitrprintrr

82 commits · Last activity 2026-01-16

Stars over time

2025-04-17 · 1192026-07-07 · 119

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/yihui/printr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

knitr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

toolsrmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

12direct

0indirect

LAGOSNE LATERmodel SimCorrMix SimMultiCorrData codemetar complexr designit felp lab2clean pseval riskCommunicator table1

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

4 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 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3Latest
2023-03-08 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2
2021-09-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.1
2021-01-27 · diff ↗
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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
0.1
2017-05-19
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-19
Total releases: 4 / 9 yrs
License: GPL
Download size: 17 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("printr")

Format

Xie, Y. (2023). printr: Automatically Print R Objects to Appropriate Formats According to the 'knitr' Output Format (Version 0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.printr

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 printr version 0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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