R Observatory: Metrics for staplr version 3.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

staplr

3.2.2Package record

A Toolkit for PDF Files

0packages dependsuggested by 1

5.4Kdownloads / year

79.5%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Priyanga Dilini TalagalaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions to manipulate PDF files: fill out PDF forms; merge multiple PDF files into one; remove selected pages from a file; rename multiple files in a directory; rotate entire pdf document; rotate selected pages of a pdf file; Select pages from a file; splits single input PDF document into individual pages; splits single input PDF document into parts from given points.

Install

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

install.packages("staplr", 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("pridiltal/staplr")

Development version from pridiltal/staplr. 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-staplr

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-staplr

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) get_fields.Rd:27: Lost braces
    27 | codes, the function will return a warning by default, suggesting setting \code{convert_field_names} to code{TRUE}.
       |                                                                                                            ^
checkRd: (-1) identify_form_fields.Rd:34: Lost braces
    34 | codes, the function will return a warning by default, suggesting setting \code{convert_field_names} to code{TRUE}.
       |                                                                                                            ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE1 OK, 12 NOTE2026-06-08
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
NOTE14 NOTE2026-04-06
ERROR13 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.2.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNo

Help pages: 17 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 92%11 run in a plain check (8 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 65%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,772 · ~15/day · ~453/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45830 days

1.4K90 days

5.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on144 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

pridiltal/staplr ↗Account: pridiltal

270Stars

27Forks

8Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

255Commits

9Commit identities

rpdftkpdftoolkit

255 commits · Last activity 2023-12-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-26 · 2682026-09-21 · 270

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pridiltal/staplr on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-12-14

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing staplr adds 19 packages (16 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, fs 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (9)

tcltkstringr assertthat glue XML rJava fs purrr pdftools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

latticetestthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

pdfcombiner

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Priyanga Dilini Talagala

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.0 (2018)

Ogan Mancarci

Author · added in 2.1.0

Granville Matheson

Author · added in 2.9.0

Daniel Padfield

Author · added in 2.1.0

Marc Vinyals

Copyright holder, Author · added in 3.2.2

Author and copyright holder of included pdftk-java package

Pedro Rafael D. Marinho

Contributor · added in 3.2.2

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-09-18
3.2.2Latest
record
2023-09-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
idenfity_form_fields

added 2 exports
combine_pdf, identify_form_fields
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-05-23
issues were not corrected in time Java specification is not in standardized form
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
3.1.1
record
2021-01-11 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-08-28
3.1.0
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2020-08-28 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-08-05
check problems were not corrected in time
3.0.0
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2020-07-22 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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2.9.0
record
2019-02-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
idenfity_form_fields, select_pages
2.2.0
record
2018-05-09 · diff ↗
2.1.0
record
2018-05-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
get_fields, rotate_pages, rotate_pdf, set_fields, split_from
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.1.0
record
2018-02-26
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-02-26
Total releases: 8 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 4.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("staplr")

Format

Talagala, P. D., D. Marinho, P. R., Mancarci, O., Matheson, G., Padfield, D., & Vinyals, M. (2023). staplr: A Toolkit for PDF Files (Version 3.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.staplr

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for staplr version 3.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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