whisker

Overview

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Maintained by Edwin de JongeFirst published 2011-09-054 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements 'Mustache' logicless templating.

Install

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

install.packages("whisker", 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("edwindj/whisker")

Development version from edwindj/whisker. 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-whisker

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

# 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-whisker

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 48 s · r-release-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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0

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Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 75%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #240 · ~6.3K/day · ~190.5K/mo

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180.7K30 days

601.3K90 days

2.3M1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ edwindj/whisker

226Stars

18Forks

14Open issues

4Open PRs

0Releases

117Commits

5Contributors

mustache-templatesr

117 commits · Last activity 2022-11-09 · +0.4% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-20 · 2162026-07-09 · 226

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/edwindj/whisker on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsTravis CIAppVeyor

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

markdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

58direct

278indirect

and 10 more packages.

People & History

People (0)

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Listed in earlier versions (1)

Edwin de Jonge

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.4.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-09-05
Total releases: 4 / 15 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 28 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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