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Universal Graphics Device

v0.2.0 · Feb 16, 2026 · GPL (>= 2)
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Description

A unified R graphics backend. Render R graphics fast and easy to many common file formats. Provides a thread safe 'C' interface for asynchronous rendering of R graphics.

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CRAN Check Status

4 WARNING
9 OK
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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 WARNING
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 WARNING
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-macos-arm64 WARNING
r-release-macos-x86_64 WARNING
r-release-windows-x86_64 OK
Check details (4 non-OK)
WARNING r-oldrel-macos-arm64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING r-release-macos-arm64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING r-release-macos-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.

Check History

WARNING 9 OK · 0 NOTE · 4 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
WARNING r-release-macos-arm64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING r-release-macos-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING r-oldrel-macos-arm64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
ERROR 8 OK · 0 NOTE · 4 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 7, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

PDF version of manual

Rd conversion errors:
Warning in dir.create(latexdir) :
  cannot create dir '/tmp/Rtmpm6Tale/ltx21a1ac65e8abf6', reason 'No space left on device'
Converting parsed Rd's to LaTeX Warning in file(out, "wt") :
  cannot open file '/tmp/Rtmpm6Tale/ltx21a1ac65e8abf6/ugd.tex': No such file or directory
Error in file(out, "wt") : cannot open the connection
WARNING r-release-macos-arm64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING r-release-macos-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING r-oldrel-macos-arm64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING 8 OK · 3 NOTE · 3 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
WARNING r-devel-macos-arm64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING r-release-macos-arm64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
WARNING r-release-macos-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘unigd/libs/unigd.so’:
  Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’
  Found ‘_abort’, possibly from ‘abort’ (C)
    Object: ‘../.deps/lib/libpng16.a’

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 16.3Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs  14.1Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 17.8Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs  15.6Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 12.1Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs   9.9Mb

Code & tests

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Code

Structure

Lines of code

11,267

Files

140

Compiled share

68%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 1,189 (10.6%)C/C++/src 7,664 (68%)Tests 765 (6.8%)Docs 568 (5%)Vignettes 1,081 (9.6%)

API

Exported functions

13

Internal functions

37

Recent export changes

v0.1.0+13 ugd, ugd_clear, ugd_close +10 more

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.64

testthat edition

3

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

100%

\dontrun example ratio

7.7%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

100%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

100%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.2.0

System requirements

6

C++ standard

–

License

GPL (>= 2)

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

5

First release

2024-01-25

Latest release

2026-02-16

Avg cadence

165 days

Cold removal rate

–

Dep drift

0

LOC over versions

v0.1.0: 9,779 LOCv0.1.1: 9,779 LOCv0.1.2: 9,834 LOCv0.1.3: 9,843 LOCv0.2.0: 11,267 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Reverse Dependencies (1)

imports

httpgd

linking_to

httpgd

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies systemfonts httpgd unigd

Version History

6 tracked
new 0.2.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.3 diff Feb 15, 2026
updated 0.1.3 ← 0.1.2 diff Feb 18, 2025
updated 0.1.2 ← 0.1.1 diff Jun 4, 2024
updated 0.1.1 ← 0.1.0 diff Mar 25, 2024
new 0.1.0 Jan 24, 2024