R Observatory: Metrics for tangram version 0.8.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tangram

0.8.3Package record

The Grammar of Tables

0packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

27.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Shawn GarbettCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides an extensible formula system to quickly and easily create production quality tables. The processing steps are a formula parser, statistical content generation from data as defined by formula, followed by rendering into a table. Each step of the processing is separate and user definable thus creating a set of composable building blocks for highly customizable table generation. A user is not limited by any of the choices of the package creator other than the formula grammar. For example, one could chose to add a different S3 rendering function and output a format not provided in the default package, or possibly one would rather have Gini coefficients for their statistical content in a resulting table. Routines to achieve New England Journal of Medicine style, Lancet style and Hmisc::summaryM() statistics are provided. The package contains rendering for HTML5, Rmarkdown and an indexing format for use in tracing and tracking are provided.

Install

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

install.packages("tangram", 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("spgarbet/tangram")

Development version from spgarbet/tangram. 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-tangram

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-tangram

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-tangram

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: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-19

Show 4 earlier changesHide 4 earlier changes

WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-17
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.3

READMEYes · 3,220 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 93
Examples that run: 100%29 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 42%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 72%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,492 · ~10/day · ~300/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37030 days

93690 days

3.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u7 autocran1.6K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

spgarbet/tangram ↗Account: spgarbet

68Stars

3Forks

15Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

669Commits

4Commit identities

669 commits · Last activity 2023-02-09 · The default branch showed an older version (0.8.2) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 83
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 101

Stars over time

2025-04-30 · 682026-07-07 · 68

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/spgarbet/tangram on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tangram adds 18 packages (12 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.5.0R6 magrittr knitr

Imports (5)

stringi stringr base64enc digest htmltools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

testthat rms rmarkdown Hmisc sandwich dplyr Matching epitools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Shawn Garbett

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.6 (2017)

Frank Harrell

Contributor · added in 0.3

Ahra Kim

Contributor · added in 0.7.1

Thomas Stewart

Contributor

Jennifer Thompson

Contributor

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.8.3Latest
record
2025-07-31 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-01-26
0.8.2
record
2023-01-26 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-12-09
issues were not corrected in time
0.8.1
record
2022-08-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
latex_template, set_colspan, set_rowspan
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-04-29
0.7.1
record
2020-04-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 13 exports
cell_chi2, cell_estimate, cell_fraction, cell_fstat, cell_iqr, cell_named_values, cell_range, cell_spearman, cell_studentt, hmisc_style, nejm_style, table_builder, table_builder_apply

added 37 exports
add_footnote, hmisc, hmisc_cell, hmisc_chi2, hmisc_fraction, hmisc_fstat, hmisc_iqr, hmisc_p, hmisc_spearman, hmisc_wilcox, insert_column, lancet, lancet_cell, lancet_fraction, lancet_mean_sd, latexify, nejm, nejm_cell, nejm_fraction, nejm_iqr, replace_cell, select_col, select_row, set_caption, set_footnote, set_id, set_style, smd, smd_cell, smd_compare and 7 more
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-04-09
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Show 6 earlier eventsHide 6 earlier events

0.4
record
2018-06-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
add_indent, csv, insert_row, nejm_style, proc_tab, summarize_nejm_horz
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.2
record
2017-10-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
summarize_chisq_single

added 2 exports
latex, rtf
0.3
record
2017-06-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 11 exports
cell_quantile, cell_table, form, new_table_builder, summary_frame, summary_rms, summary_table, tg, tg_N, tg_fraction, tg_quantile

added 9 exports
cell, cell_iqr, cell_named_values, cell_range, cols, render_f, rows, table_builder, tangram
0.2.6
record
2017-05-03
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-03
Total releases: 8 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 11 KB / 1 file
Download size: 151 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tangram")

Format

Garbett, S., Harrell, F., Kim, A., Stewart, T., & Thompson, J. (2025). tangram: The Grammar of Tables (Version 0.8.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tangram

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tangram version 0.8.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →