R Observatory: Metrics for rvg version 0.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rvg

0.4.2Package record

R Graphics Devices for 'Office' Vector Graphics Output

10packages dependsuggested by 6

252.1Kdownloads / year

75.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David GohelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Vector Graphics devices for 'Microsoft PowerPoint' and 'Microsoft Excel'. Functions extending package 'officer' are provided to embed 'DrawingML' graphics into 'Microsoft PowerPoint' presentations and 'Microsoft Excel' workbooks.

Changes in 0.4.2

Features

new method sheet_add_drawing.dml() to add vector graphics to an

Excel sheet via officer::sheet_add_drawing(). This provides a unified

API for adding drawings to xlsx workbooks.

Issues

sheet_add_drawing.dml() now appends its anchor to the sheet's existing drawing part (via officer::xlsx_drawing) instead of creating a second drawing part and a second <drawing> reference on the worksheet. Mixing dml with other sheet_add_drawing() methods (external_img, gg, ms_chart) on the same sheet now produces a valid xlsx.

Changes

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xl_add_vg() is now deprecated in favour of sheet_add_drawing().
Wrapped the two Rf_error() calls in pptx_new_page() and xlsx_new_page() with parentheses ((Rf_error)(...)) so they remain direct C-ABI calls instead of going through the Rcpp override (#66). These are device callbacks where Rf_error's longjmp is the correct signalling mechanism.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rvg", 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("davidgohel/rvg")

Development version from davidgohel/rvg. 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-rvg

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-rvg

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-rvg

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: 4.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.2

READMEYes · 150 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 7 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 33%2 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 53%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

252.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #941 · ~691/day · ~21K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

14.3K30 days

44K90 days

252.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.4K r2u3 autocran8.3K conda_forge113 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

davidgohel/rvg ↗Account: davidgohel

135Stars

33Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

334Commits

4Commit identities

334 commits · Last activity 2026-05-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 36%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 23
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-07-31 · 1282026-09-11 · 135

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/davidgohel/rvg on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-18

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rvg adds 40 packages (28 with compiled code, 32 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, fontLiberation 4.3 MB, fontquiver 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (7)

gdtoolsgrDevicesofficer Rcpp (>= 0.12.12)rlang systemfonts xml2

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp systemfonts

Suggests (2)

gridtestthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

9indirect

Imports 10

Suggested by 6

Show all 16 packagesHide all 16 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

officedown export rrtable jsmodule eoffice autoslider.core bfw thinkr presenter survC

Suggests, most downloaded first

openxlsx2 esquisse agrobox SUMO diagFDR autocodebook

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

David Gohel

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.5 (2016)

Francois Brunetti

Contributor · added in 0.0.7

clipping algorithms

Bob Rudis

Contributor · added in 0.0.7

the javascript code used by function set_attr

ArData

Copyright holder · added in 0.3.3

Releases (31)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.4.2Latest
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2026-04-24 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.1
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2026-02-16 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2025-10-06 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.5
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2025-03-27 · diff ↗
0.3.4
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2024-08-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.3
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2023-05-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.2
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2023-01-07 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2022-12-21 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2022-12-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
dml_docx
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.5
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2020-06-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
ph_with_vg, ph_with_vg_at

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0.2.4.1
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2020-06-28 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.4
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2020-02-17 · diff ↗
0.2.3
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2020-01-27 · diff ↗
0.2.2
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2019-11-11 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2019-06-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
dml
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.0
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2019-04-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
dsvg, dsvg_view, rvg_tracer_off, rvg_tracer_on, set_attr
0.1.9
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2018-06-11 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.8
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2018-02-13 · diff ↗
0.1.7
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2017-12-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
xl_add_vg
0.1.6
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2017-10-05 · diff ↗
0.1.5
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2017-09-05 · diff ↗
0.1.4
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2017-06-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ph_with_vg_at
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.3
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2017-03-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
write_docx, write_pptx, write_xlsx

added 2 exports
body_add_vg, ph_with_vg
0.1.2
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2017-01-03 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2016-11-02 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2016-06-27 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.0.9
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2016-04-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
dml_xlsx, write_xlsx
0.0.8
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2016-03-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 9 exports
interactivePointsGrob, interactivePolygonGrob, interactivePolylineGrob, interactiveRectGrob, interactiveSegmentsGrob, interactiveTextGrob, send_click, send_tooltip, set_data_id
0.0.7
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2016-02-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
set_attr
0.0.6
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2016-01-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
interactivePointsGrob, interactivePolygonGrob, interactivePolylineGrob, interactiveRectGrob, interactiveSegmentsGrob, interactiveTextGrob
0.0.5
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2016-01-06
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-06
Total releases: 31 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Download size: 38 KB

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Format

Gohel, D., ArData, Brunetti, F., & Rudis, B. (2026). rvg: R Graphics Devices for 'Office' Vector Graphics Output (Version 0.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rvg

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rvg version 0.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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