R Observatory: Metrics for quarto version 1.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

quarto

1.5.1Package record

R Interface to 'Quarto' Markdown Publishing System

24packages dependsuggested by 254

1.4Mdownloads / year

49.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christophe DervieuxCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Convert R Markdown documents and 'Jupyter' notebooks to a variety of output formats using 'Quarto'.

Changes in 1.5.1

Make sure tests pass on CRAN checks even when Quarto is not installed by adding a gihub action to test when no quarto is available. Also fix tests that were

not skipping when quarto was not available which failed on CRAN checks for MacOS and no binary were built. (thanks, @jabenninghoff, #282)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("quarto", 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("quarto-dev/quarto-r")

Development version from quarto-dev/quarto-r. 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-quarto

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-quarto

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-quarto

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-28
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-24
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.1

READMEYes · 147 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 32 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 27%7 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 19 never run
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 76%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (6)

Custom Quarto Formats For Vignettes HTML
Dynamic Metadata in Quarto Documents HTML
Publishing HTML
Quarto HTML Vignettes HTML
Quarto PDF Vignettes PDF
Working with R Scripts HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #409 · ~4K/day · ~120.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

59K30 days

213.5K90 days

1.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on11.1K r2u9 autocran7K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

quarto-dev/quarto-r ↗Organization: quarto-dev

160Stars

29Forks

38Open issues

4Open PRs

4Releases

376Commits

25Commit identities

376 commits · Last activity 2026-09-10 · -0.6% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.5.1.9003, ahead of CRAN 1.5.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 313
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 1612026-09-27 · 160

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-r on 2026-10-11.

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 (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-10 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-10

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-20
Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/skills
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.local.md
Named in .gitignore: CLAUDE.local.md
Gemini CLIfirst seen on or before 2026-07-18
Config: a file or ignore line, not recorded which

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

34 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing quarto adds 30 packages (18 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (14)

cli fs htmltools jsonlite later lifecycle processx rlang rmarkdown rstudioapitoolsutilsxfun yaml (>= 2.3.10)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (22)

bslib callr curl dplyr flextable ggiraph ggplot2 gt heatmaply kableExtra knitr palmerpenguins patchwork pkgload plotly rsconnect testthat thematic tidyverse tinytable whoami withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

24direct

4indirect

Imports 24

Suggested by 254

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

ggplot2 devtools usethis pkgdown recipes lava ggplotify ggfun rsconnect ggtangle marginaleffects tinytable betareg mlogit ggformula tidyterra dfidx micsr huxtable markovchain ggimage cffr visreg giscoR

and 230 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Christophe Dervieux

Maintainer since 1.4 (2024), Author · added in 1.4

JJ Allaire

Author

Gordon Woodhull

Contributor · added in 1.5.0

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4

Previously maintained by JJ Allaire (0.1 to 1.3).

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.5.1Latest
record
2025-09-04 · current release · diff ↗
1.5.0
record
2025-07-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 31 exports
add_spin_preamble, check_newer_version, detect_bookdown_crossrefs, find_project_root, get_running_project_root, has_parameters, new_blog_post, project_path, qmd_to_r_script, quarto_available, quarto_list_extensions, quarto_remove_extension, quarto_update_extension, tbl_qmd_div, tbl_qmd_div_base64, tbl_qmd_div_raw, tbl_qmd_span, tbl_qmd_span_base64, tbl_qmd_span_raw, theme_brand_flextable, theme_brand_ggplot2, theme_brand_gt, theme_brand_plotly, theme_brand_thematic, theme_colors_flextable, theme_colors_ggplot2, theme_colors_gt, theme_colors_plotly, theme_colors_thematic, write_yaml_metadata_block and 1 more
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.4.4
record
2024-07-20 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4
record
2024-03-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
is_using_quarto, quarto_add_extension, quarto_binary_sitrep, quarto_create_project, quarto_use_template
1.3
record
2023-09-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
quarto_run

added 1 export
quarto_serve
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2
record
2022-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
quarto_serve

added 2 exports
quarto_run, quarto_version
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1
record
2022-01-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
quarto_run, quarto_serve_stop
1.0
record
2021-08-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
quarto_metadata, quarto_publish

added 7 exports
quarto_inspect, quarto_preview, quarto_preview_stop, quarto_publish_app, quarto_publish_doc, quarto_publish_site, quarto_run
0.3
record
2021-05-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
quarto_publish, quarto_serve, quarto_serve_stop
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1
record
2021-02-09

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R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-02-09
Total releases: 10 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 2) in 1.5.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 402 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

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citation("quarto")

Format

Dervieux, C., Posit Software, PBC, Allaire, J., & Woodhull, G. (2025). quarto: R Interface to 'Quarto' Markdown Publishing System (Version 1.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.quarto

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for quarto version 1.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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