simPDF

0.1.1

Fast Multi-Page PDF Report Layout on the Graphics Device

0packages depend

19downloads / year

61.3%test coverage

11/11checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kyun-Seop BaeFirst published 2026-07-301 releasesCRAN page ↗

A lightweight, dependency-free engine to build multi-page PDF reports quickly on top of R's built-in graphics device ('pdf'/'cairo_pdf'). Content is placed by a measured flow layout: every text block reports its real width and height via 'strwidth'/'strheight', the vertical cursor advances by measured height, and pages break automatically. This eliminates the text-overlap of dead-reckoned coordinate reports (such as the 'nmw' NONMEM diagnostic reports) and replaces slow '.Rmd'/'knitr'/'LaTeX' pipelines for fixed report generation. Interactive AcroForm CRFs are out of scope and handled by the sibling 'pdfCRF' package.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)

install.packages("simPDF", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-simpdf

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-simPDF

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

11OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

61.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
9 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-31
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 260 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (2)

grDevicesgraphics

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none

Suggests (5)

tinytest png jpeg knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Kyun-Seop Bae

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Kyun-Seop Bae

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.1Latest
2026-07-30 · current release
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-30
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
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