R Observatory: Metrics for tikzDevice version 0.12.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tikzDevice

0.12.6

R Graphics Output in LaTeX Format

12packages depend

167Kdownloads / year

0.3%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ralf StubnerFirst published 2009-09-1231 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 7.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.57

0.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-29
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-27
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-12
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-09
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 5 earlier snapshots

OK2026-05-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-04
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-03
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-30
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 67%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 30%

Downloads

167K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,007 · ~458/day · ~13.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

12.2K30 days

40.1K90 days

167K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.7K r2u320 autocran293 conda_forge241 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ daqana/tikzdevice

138Stars

26Forks

37Open issues

4Open PRs

16Releases

1,247Commits

29Contributors

1,247 commits · Last activity 2024-06-13 · +0.7% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-11 · 1352026-08-12 · 138

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/daqana/tikzdevice on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsAppVeyor

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

12direct

0indirect

BayesSUR ggtikz visvow RGraphics RankingProject dplR fcaR gMOIP knitr mkin pvars wrswoR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Ralf Stubner

Maintainer · added in 0.12

Authors (2)

Cameron Bracken

Author

Charlie Sharpsteen

Author

Contributors (3)

Nico Bellack

Contributor · added in 0.12.3

Kirill Müller

Contributor · added in 0.8

Yihui Xie

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Kirill Mueller

no longer listed · 3.0.3 to 0.7.0

Package Timeline

31 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
0.12.6Latest
2023-11-29 · current release · diff ↗
0.12.5
2023-08-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.12.4
2023-02-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.12.3.1
2020-06-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.12.3
2019-08-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.12
2018-07-02 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-07-02
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.11
2018-03-19 · diff ↗
0.10-1.2
2018-02-14 · diff ↗
0.10-1.1
2018-02-14 · diff ↗
orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2018-02-14
check errors were not corrected despite reminder Included missing Suggests, rchk and registration issues
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.10-1
2016-02-10 · diff ↗
0.10
2016-02-06 · diff ↗
0.9
2015-11-17 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.8.1
2015-01-07 · diff ↗
0.8
2015-01-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.7.0
2013-12-19 · diff ↗
3.0.3
2013-12-10 · diff ↗
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
0.6.2
2012-01-13 · diff ↗
2.14.1
2011-11-13 · diff ↗
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
0.6.1
2011-04-15 · diff ↗
2.13.1
2011-04-14 · diff ↗
2.13.0
2011-04-13 · diff ↗
0.6.0
2011-04-13 · diff ↗
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
0.5.3
2010-12-06 · diff ↗
2.12.1
2010-12-05 · diff ↗
2.12.0
2010-10-15 · diff ↗
0.5.2
2010-10-15 · diff ↗
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
0.5.1
2010-10-12 · diff ↗
0.5.0
2010-08-10 · diff ↗
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
0.4.8
2009-09-29 · diff ↗
0.4.7
2009-09-12 · diff ↗
2.10.0
2009-07-23
R
R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17

Package metadata

First published: 2009-09-12
Total releases: 31 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.0
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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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 v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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