R Observatory: Metrics for tinkr version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tinkr

0.3.1

Cast '(R)Markdown' Files to 'XML' and Back Again

0packages depend

6.3Kdownloads / year

98.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zhian N. KamvarCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: rOpenSci

Parsing '(R)Markdown' files with numerous regular expressions can be fraught with peril, but it does not have to be this way. Converting '(R)Markdown' files to 'XML' using the 'commonmark' package allows in-memory editing via of 'markdown' elements via 'XPath' through the extensible 'R6' class called 'yarn'. These modified 'XML' representations can be written to '(R)Markdown' documents via an 'xslt' stylesheet which implements an extended version of 'GitHub'-flavoured 'markdown' so that you can tinker to your hearts content.

Changes in 0.3.1

BUG FIX

list sub-items will no longer be incorrectly indented if the parent item is

an ordered item (reported and fixed: @maelle, #140)

we now use the air formatter for code in the project (#141)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tinkr", 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("ropensci/tinkr")

Development version from ropensci/tinkr. 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-tinkr

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-tinkr

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
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 0.3.1

READMEYes · 1,045 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18 (7 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%17 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the tinkr package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,110 · ~17/day · ~527/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

56630 days

1.6K90 days

6.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on107 r2u1.7K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/tinkr ↗Organization: ropensci

62Stars

7Forks

26Open issues

9Open PRs

3Releases

454Commits

4Commit identities

rr-packagerstatsxpathcommonmarkxml

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 454 commits · Last activity 2026-06-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2025-09-12 · 602026-07-07 · 62

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/tinkr on 2026-10-11.

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 (4)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tinkr adds 12 packages (10 with compiled code, 5.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

commonmark glue lifecycle magrittr purrr R6 rlang xml2 xslt

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown covr testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Zhian N. Kamvar

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Author

Author

Contributor

Copyright holder

Nick Wellnhofer wrote the XSLT stylesheet.

rOpenSci

Funder

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.1Latest
record
2025-10-04 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.0
record
2025-05-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
get_protected, protect_fences, show_block, show_censor, show_list, to_md_vec
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
0.2.0
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2023-03-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
protect_curly
0.1.0
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2022-08-19
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-08-19
Total releases: 4 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 103 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tinkr")

Format

Kamvar, Z. N., rOpenSci, Daengeli, P., Ooms, J., Salmon, M., & Wellnhofer, N. (2025). tinkr: Cast '(R)Markdown' Files to 'XML' and Back Again (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tinkr

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 tinkr version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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