R Observatory: Metrics for tufte version 0.15.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tufte

0.15.0Package record

Tufte's Styles for R Markdown Documents

1packages dependsuggested by 10

75.2Kdownloads / year

76.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christophe DervieuxCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Provides R Markdown output formats to use Tufte styles for PDF and HTML output.

Changes in 0.15.0

New features

tufte_handout() and tufte_book() gain a margin_fig_pos argument for controlling the vertical offset of margin figures globally. Set in YAML (margin_fig_pos: "0cm"), via knitr::opts_chunk$set(), or per-chunk. Per-chunk fig.pos still overrides it, and a global opts_chunk$set(fig.pos = ...) (intended for regular figures) no longer leaks onto margin chunks (#62).
New tufte_handout2(), tufte_book2(), and tufte_html2() wrap the corresponding bookdown output formats, enabling text references (ref:label) in figure and table captions and cross-references. Markdown links in fig.cap are now converted to LaTeX. Requires the bookdown package (suggested) (#60).

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Minor improvements and fixes

fig.margin = TRUE (and fig.fullwidth = TRUE) are now honoured in HTML output when fig.align is set. The margin/fullwidth wrapper was previously dropped because the figure hook missed the style attribute added by knitr (#54).
The obsolete usenames option is no longer passed to the xcolor LaTeX package, suppressing a warning on TeX Live 2022+ (#127).
quote_footer() now renders an em-dash consistently across tufte and non-tufte outputs when the caller writes a leading "---". For non-tufte HTML the leading "---" is stripped to avoid doubling with Bootstrap's ::before em-dash; for tufte HTML an em-dash glyph is inserted in the markup; for LaTeX the leading "---" is preserved so pandoc's smart-punctuation extension converts it (#73).
quote_footer() now right-aligns the footer in non-tufte HTML output (e.g. html_document, including bslib Bootstrap 4 and 5 themes) and tags it with class="blockquote-footer" so Bootstrap 4/5 class-based styling applies. quote_footer() no longer warns when called outside a pandoc context, so it can be used unconditionally in inline R expressions (#73).
tufte_handout() and tufte_book() no longer place pandoc's \citep and \citet natbib citations inline when citation_package: natbib is used. The patched tufte-common.def routes both through the margin sidenote machinery; \citet keeps its textual "Author (Year)" form inline while adding the full reference to the margin. Suppress-author citations ([-@key], emitted as \citeyearpar) are intentionally left inline (thanks, @jlorieau, #48).
tufte_handout() and tufte_book() use fig_crop = "auto" by default (matching rmarkdown::pdf_document()), avoiding a spurious warning about pdfcrop when crop tools are not installed (thanks, @sandhya9215, #124).
tufte_html() no longer drops nocite references when link-citations: yes. References without in-text citations are preserved in the bibliography section at the bottom of the document (#35).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tufte", 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("rstudio/tufte")

Development version from rstudio/tufte. 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-tufte

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-tufte

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-tufte

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 0.15.0

READMEYes · 207 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.15.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 2 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

How these are measured

Downloads

75.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,571 · ~206/day · ~6.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.2K30 days

14.9K90 days

75.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.7K r2u4 autocran2.5K conda_forge92 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/tufte ↗Organization: rstudio

433Stars

110Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

256Commits

13Commit identities

tuftetufte-styler-packager-markdown

256 commits · Last activity 2026-07-07 · -0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.15.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.15.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-14 · 4162026-09-28 · 433

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/tufte on 2026-10-21.

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 (3)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-22

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-24
Seen in the repository: .claude
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Gemini CLIfirst seen on or before 2026-07-18
Config: a file or ignore line, not recorded which

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tufte adds 25 packages (14 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

htmltools knitr rmarkdown xfun (>= 0.13)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

xml2 bookdown covr testthat tinytex withr (>= 2.3.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Depends 1

Suggested by 10

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

qeML

Suggests, most downloaded first

bookdown lintr PowerTOST CHNOSZ recmap secuTrialR nipnTK chronicle repoRter.nih evalR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Christophe Dervieux

Contributor, Maintainer since 0.12 (2022) · added in 0.10

JJ Allaire

Author

Yihui Xie

Author

Dave Liepmann

Contributor

Tufte CSS in inst/rmarkdown/templates/tufte_html/resources

Andrzej Oles

Contributor · added in 0.3

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.13

Previously maintained by Yihui Xie (0.1 to 0.11).

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio, Inc.

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.5

RStudio, PBC

no longer listed · 0.6 to 0.12

Releases (15)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.15.0Latest
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2026-05-21 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
tufte_book2, tufte_handout2, tufte_html2
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.14.0
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2025-07-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.13
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2023-06-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.12
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2022-01-28 · diff ↗
0.11
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2021-12-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.10
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2021-05-17 · diff ↗
0.9
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2020-12-02 · diff ↗
0.8
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2020-10-30 · diff ↗
0.7
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2020-09-25 · diff ↗
0.6
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2020-05-08 · diff ↗

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5
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2019-05-12 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4
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2018-07-15 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3
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2018-01-24 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2
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2016-02-07 · diff ↗
0.1
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2016-01-20
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-20
Total releases: 15 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 274 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tufte")

Format

Dervieux, C., Posit Software, PBC, Allaire, J., Liepmann, D., Oles, A., & Xie, Y. (2026). tufte: Tufte's Styles for R Markdown Documents (Version 0.15.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tufte

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tufte version 0.15.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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