R Observatory: Metrics for TeXCheckR version 0.8.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

TeXCheckR

0.8.1Package record

Parses LaTeX Documents for Errors

0packages dependsuggested by 1

4.1Kdownloads / year

77.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hugh ParsonageCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Checks LaTeX documents and .bib files for typing errors, such as spelling errors, incorrect quotation marks. Also provides useful functions for parsing and linting bibliography files.

Changes in 0.8.1

Internal

Fix upcoming namespace clash with data.table for %notin%

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("TeXCheckR", 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("HughParsonage/TeXCheckR")

Development version from HughParsonage/TeXCheckR. 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-texcheckr

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-TeXCheckR

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-TeXCheckR

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: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-30
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.1

READMEYes · 502 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.8.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 43includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 60%6 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 29%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 56%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,315 · ~11/day · ~341/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32730 days

90790 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on69 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hughparsonage/texcheckr ↗Account: HughParsonage

7Stars

3Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

942Commits

6Commit identities

latexbibtexspellcheckr

942 commits · Last activity 2025-06-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-01-30 · 72026-07-07 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/hughparsonage/texcheckr on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-06-01

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing TeXCheckR adds 11 packages (7 with compiled code, 12 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, hunspell 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (11)

clisymbols crayon data.table fastmatch hunspell hutils magrittr rstudioapistatstoolszoo

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

devtools readr rlang stringi testthat tinytex

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

hutilscpp

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Hugh Parsonage

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2017)

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2024-02-04 · current release · 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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.6.0
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2018-08-25 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.5.1
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2018-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
minimal_bib, read_tex_document, split_report, strip_comments, veto_sic
0.4.4
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2017-11-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
inputs_of
0.4.1
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2017-10-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
replace_LaTeX_argument

added 9 exports
commands_used, extract_LaTeX_argument, extract_mandatory_LaTeX_argument, extract_optional_LaTeX_argument, extract_validate_abbreviations, figs_tbls_unrefd, parse_tex, report2console, tex_group_by_char
0.2.0
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2017-06-17 · diff ↗

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.1
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2017-04-09
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-04-09
Total releases: 8 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 5.4 KB / 4 files
Download size: 3.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("TeXCheckR")

Format

Parsonage, H. (2024). TeXCheckR: Parses LaTeX Documents for Errors (Version 0.8.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.TeXCheckR

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 TeXCheckR version 0.8.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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