R Observatory: Metrics for textshaping version 1.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

textshaping

1.0.5

Bindings to the 'HarfBuzz' and 'Fribidi' Libraries for Text Shaping

6packages depend

12.7Mdownloads / year

44.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenFirst published 2020-09-1721 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides access to the text shaping functionality in the 'HarfBuzz' library and the bidirectional algorithm in the 'Fribidi' library. 'textshaping' is a low-level utility package mainly for graphic devices that expands upon the font tool-set provided by the 'systemfonts' package.

Install

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

install.packages("textshaping", 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("r-lib/textshaping")

Development version from r-lib/textshaping. 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-textshaping

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-textshaping

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-textshaping

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.11

44.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 188 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

12.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #76 · ~34.7K/day · ~1.1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

841.4K30 days

2.6M90 days

12.7M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/textshaping

20Stars

10Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

21Releases

231Commits

7Contributors

231 commits · Last activity 2026-03-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-12-06 · 192026-07-07 · 20

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/textshaping on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (5)

lifecyclestatsstringi systemfontsutils

LinkingTo (2)

cpp11 systemfonts

Suggests (6)

covrgrDevicesgridknitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

483indirect

foodwebWrapper geomtextpath marquee ragg svglite ragg svglite educabR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer, Author

Authors (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer, Author

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.0.1

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.0.1

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.3.6

Posit, PBC

no longer listed · 0.3.7 to 1.0.0

Package Timeline

21 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-17
Total releases: 21 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 75 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Pedersen, T. L., & Posit Software, PBC. (2026). textshaping: Bindings to the 'HarfBuzz' and 'Fribidi' Libraries for Text Shaping (Version 1.0.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.textshaping

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for textshaping version 1.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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