R Observatory: Metrics for webp version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

webp

1.3.0Package record

A New Format for Lossless and Lossy Image Compression

2packages dependsuggested by 6

998.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Lossless webp images are 26% smaller in size compared to PNG. Lossy webp images are 25-34% smaller in size compared to JPEG. This package reads and writes webp images into a 3 (rgb) or 4 (rgba) channel bitmap array using conventions from the 'jpeg' and 'png' packages.

Changes in 1.3.0

Windows: use libwebp from Rtools if found

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("webp", 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("jeroen/webp")

Development version from jeroen/webp. 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-webp

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-webp

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: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

998.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #588 · ~2.7K/day · ~83.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

7.2K30 days

105.2K90 days

998.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on488 r2u46 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

jeroen/webp ↗Account: jeroen

17Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

3Releases

81Commits

3Commit identities

81 commits · Last activity 2025-07-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 67
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-13 · 162026-07-07 · 17

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jeroen/webp 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

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing webp adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

jpeg png

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

1indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 6

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

PRISMA2020 AdhereR

Suggests, most downloaded first

magick pdftools rsvg imager seminr ursa

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer since 0.2 (2015)

Releases (8)

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-30
Total releases: 8 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 17 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("webp")

Format

Ooms, J. (2024). webp: A New Format for Lossless and Lossy Image Compression (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.webp

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 webp version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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