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Using Fonts More Easily in R Graphs

v0.9-8 · Mar 20, 2026 · Apache License (>= 2.0)
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Description

Making it easy to use various types of fonts ('TrueType', 'OpenType', Type 1, web fonts, etc.) in R graphs, and supporting most output formats of R graphics including PNG, PDF and SVG. Text glyphs will be converted into polygons or raster images, hence after the plot has been created, it no longer relies on the font files. No external software such as 'Ghostscript' is needed to use this package.

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File ‘showtext/libs/showtext.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

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See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
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compiled code

File ‘showtext/libs/showtext.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
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compiled code

File ‘showtext/libs/showtext.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

compiled code

File ‘showtext/libs/showtext.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

compiled code

File 'showtext/libs/x64/showtext.dll':
  Found non-API call to R: 'R_UnboundValue'

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual,
and section 'Moving into C API compliance' for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘showtext/libs/showtext.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

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NOTE 13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 28, 2026
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compiled code

File ‘showtext/libs/showtext.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
ERROR 12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 16, 2026
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Maintainer: ‘Yixuan Qiu <yixuan.qiu@cos.name>’

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NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
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Maintainer: ‘Yixuan Qiu <yixuan.qiu@cos.name>’

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  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Yixuan",
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               person(given = c("authors/contributors", "of", "the", "included", "software.", "See", "file", "AUTHORS", "for"),
                      family = "details.",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

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Maintainer: ‘Yixuan Qiu <yixuan.qiu@cos.name>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Yixuan",
                      family = "Qiu",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                 
...[truncated]...
il = "yixuan.qiu@cos.name"),
               person(given = c("authors/contributors", "of", "the", "included", "software.", "See", "file", "AUTHORS", "for"),
                      family = "details.",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

Reverse Dependencies (39)

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies sysfonts showtextdb memery MSUthemes RSSthemes agregR cartographr dlookr emojifont fonctionr gghdx hexSticker hmsidwR huito kanjistat meme mipplot +24 more reverse deps showtext

Version History

updated 0.9-8 ← 0.9-7 diff Mar 21, 2026
new 0.9-7 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.9-7 ← 0.9-6 diff Mar 1, 2024
updated 0.9-6 ← 0.9-5 diff May 2, 2023
updated 0.9-5 ← 0.9-4 diff Feb 8, 2022
updated 0.9-4 ← 0.9-3 diff Aug 13, 2021
updated 0.9-3 ← 0.9-2 diff Jul 25, 2021
updated 0.9-2 ← 0.9-1 diff Jan 9, 2021
updated 0.9-1 ← 0.9 diff Nov 13, 2020
updated 0.9 ← 0.8-1 diff Aug 12, 2020
updated 0.8-1 ← 0.8 diff May 24, 2020
updated 0.8 ← 0.7-1 diff May 8, 2020
updated 0.7-1 ← 0.7 diff Jan 26, 2020
updated 0.7 ← 0.6 diff Jun 10, 2019
updated 0.6 ← 0.5-1 diff Jan 9, 2019
updated 0.5-1 ← 0.5 diff Jan 15, 2018
updated 0.5 ← 0.4-6 diff Sep 21, 2017
updated 0.4-6 ← 0.4-5 diff Jan 4, 2017
updated 0.4-5 ← 0.4-4 diff Oct 13, 2016
updated 0.4-4 ← 0.4-3 diff Oct 29, 2015