signs

0.1.2

Insert Proper Minus Signs

3packages depend

11.5Kdownloads / year

85.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Benjamin E. WolfeFirst published 2019-10-013 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides convenience functions to replace hyphen-minuses (ASCII 45) with proper minus signs (Unicode character 2212). The true minus matches the plus symbol in width, line thickness, and height above the baseline. It was designed for mathematics, looks better in presentation, and is understood properly by screen readers.

Install

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

install.packages("signs", 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("BenjaminWolfe/signs")

Development version from BenjaminWolfe/signs. 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-signs

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-signs

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-signs

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.36

85.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 463 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 69%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

11.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,897 · ~31/day · ~957/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ benjaminwolfe/signs

17Stars

0Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

38Commits

2Contributors

38 commits · Last activity 2020-01-16

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/benjaminwolfe/signs on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CIAppVeyor

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

scales rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

ggplot2 dplyr ggrepel testthat knitr rmarkdown covr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Benjamin E. Wolfe

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Benjamin E. Wolfe

Author, Maintainer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Wolfe

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.1.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-01
Total releases: 3 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 181 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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