R Observatory: Metrics for textshaping version 1.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

textshaping

1.0.5Package record

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

5packages dependsuggested by 2

11.6Mdownloads / year

44.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

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.

Changes in 1.0.5

Fixed a bug when reverting back from one fallback to the previous one (#76)

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.5

READMEYes · 188 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.5Citation fileNo

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 17%

Vignettes (1)

textshaping C interface HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

11.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #89 · ~31.7K/day · ~964.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

618.4K30 days

2.1M90 days

11.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on177.1K r2u4 autocran1.3M conda_forge17.7K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/textshaping ↗Organization: r-lib

20Stars

10Forks

6Open issues

1Open PRs

21Releases

231Commits

7Commit identities

231 commits · Last activity 2026-03-18 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.5.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.5 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 88%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 33
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-02 · 202026-07-07 · 20

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/textshaping on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

Air

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing textshaping adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

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

5direct

483indirect

Imports 5 · LinkingTo 2

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ragg svglite marquee geomtextpath foodwebWrapper

Suggests, most downloaded first

educabR gridmicrotex

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020), Author

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

Releases (21)

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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

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("textshaping")

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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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for textshaping version 1.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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