R Observatory: Metrics for tikzDevice version 0.12.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tikzDevice

0.12.6Package record

R Graphics Output in LaTeX Format

3packages dependsuggested by 8

145.2Kdownloads / year

0.3%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ralf StubnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a graphics output device for R that records plots in a LaTeX-friendly format. The device transforms plotting commands issued by R functions into LaTeX code blocks. When included in a LaTeX document, these blocks are interpreted with the help of 'TikZ'---a graphics package for TeX and friends written by Till Tantau. Using the 'tikzDevice', the text of R plots can contain LaTeX commands such as mathematical formula. The device also allows arbitrary LaTeX code to be inserted into the output stream.

Changes in 0.12.6

Bug fixes

---------

corrects an error message to remove WARNING on CRAN (#227 fixing #226)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tikzDevice", 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("daqana/tikzDevice")

Development version from daqana/tikzDevice. 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-tikzdevice

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-tikzDevice

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-tikzDevice

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-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

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  tikzDevice/tests/testthat/test_graphics.R (.Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 7.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-05-29
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-27
OK13 OK2026-05-12
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-09

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OK13 OK2026-05-05
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-04
OK13 OK2026-05-03
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-30
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.12.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.12.6Citation fileNo

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 50%3 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 30%

Vignettes (1)

The tikzDevice Package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

145.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,141 · ~398/day · ~12.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

8.1K30 days

30.7K90 days

145.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.9K r2u252 autocran801 conda_forge269 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

daqana/tikzdevice ↗Organization: daqanaFork of Sharpie/RTikZDevice

138Stars

26Forks

37Open issues

4Open PRs

16Releases

1,247Commits

29Commit identities

1,247 commits · Last activity 2024-06-13 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 65
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-06-11 · 1352026-08-12 · 138

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/daqana/tikzdevice on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowAppVeyor

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

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-06-13

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tikzDevice adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 399 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: digest 231 KB, filehash 144 KB, png 24 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.14.0

Imports (2)

filehash png

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

evaluate formatR ggplot2 knitrlatticemaps scales stringr testthat withr covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 8

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

BayesSUR visvow ggtikz

Suggests, most downloaded first

knitr wrswoR gMOIP mkin fcaR RGraphics pvars RankingProject

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Ralf Stubner

Maintainer · added in 0.12

Cameron Bracken

Author

Charlie Sharpsteen

Author

Nico Bellack

Contributor · added in 0.12.3

Kirill Müller

Contributor · added in 0.8

Yihui Xie

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Maintainer since 0.7.0 (2013), previously The tikzDevice team (0.4.7 to 0.6.2)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Kirill Mueller

no longer listed · 3.0.3 to 0.7.0

Releases (31)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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Package metadata

First published: 2009-07-23
Total releases: 31 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.0
Download size: 1.4 MB

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citation("tikzDevice")

Format

Stubner, R., Bellack, N., Bracken, C., Müller, K., Sharpsteen, C., & Xie, Y. (2023). tikzDevice: R Graphics Output in LaTeX Format (Version 0.12.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tikzDevice

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tikzDevice version 0.12.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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