R Observatory: Metrics for cardargus version 0.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cardargus

0.2.5Package record

Generate SVG Information Cards with Embedded Fonts and Badges

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

24.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andre LeiteCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Create self-contained SVG information cards with embedded 'Google Fonts', shields-style badges, and custom logos. Cards are fully portable SVG files ideal for dashboards, reports, and web applications. Includes functions to export cards to PNG and PDF formats and display them in 'R Markdown' and 'Quarto' documents.

Changes in 0.2.5

New features

svg_to_pdf() exports a card to a **vector** PDF via rsvg::rsvg_pdf(), mirroring svg_to_png() (sanitizes the SVG and embeds WOFF2 fonts). For Chrome-based rendering, svg_to_pdf_chrome() remains available (#17).
save_card_for_knitr() now accepts format = "pdf" (in addition to "svg" and "png"), using Chrome when available and svg_to_pdf() otherwise.

Chrome rendering: more robust, faster, higher quality

The Chrome-based conversion pipeline (svg_to_png_chrome(),

svg_to_pdf_chrome(), batch_svg_to_*_chrome()) was reworked:

**Deterministic readiness wait.** Conversions no longer rely on a fixed Sys.sleep(): the page load event and document.fonts.ready are awaited, so screenshots/PDFs are never captured before web fonts finish rendering, and no time is wasted over-waiting. The load_wait argument now means an *extra* wait after readiness and defaults to 0; a new timeout argument (default 10s) bounds the readiness wait.

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**Persistent Chrome session.** A single health-checked session is reused across calls (and replaced transparently if it dies), removing the ~1-2s session startup previously paid on every conversion. The session is closed when the package is unloaded.
**No temp files.** Pages are loaded via data: URLs instead of temporary HTML files and file:// navigation (a temp file is used only for very large documents), avoiding path/permission issues on Windows.
**Real alpha transparency.** With background = "transparent", svg_to_png_chrome() now produces a PNG with a true alpha channel (previously the backdrop was flattened).

Minor improvements

svg_to_formats(formats = "pdf") now reuses svg_to_pdf() for the vector path and warns explicitly when it falls back to a rasterized PDF via magick.

Bug fixes

magick and rsvg moved from Imports to Suggests: they are only needed for raster/PDF export, which is already guarded by requireNamespace(). This lightens the install footprint and matches the package's "heavy deps in Suggests" convention (#19).
svg_card() now sizes badges using value_fontsize instead of a hard-coded 10, preventing clipped/misaligned badge text when value_fontsize differs from 10 (#18).
is_light_color() now reports an unknown color name with a clear cli error instead of letting col2rgb() raise a raw base error (#20).
.onLoad() no longer tries to download the Jost font from Google Fonts when it is not installed on the system. Network access at load time is against CRAN policy and produced a non-suppressible startup message on machines without the font (the cause of the spurious WARNINGs on the CRAN r-oldrel-macos-arm64 checks for 0.2.4). Fonts are registered on demand when a card is rendered, as before.
The GitHub stars badge in the README now links to the repository root: the /stargazers page answers 404 to the HEAD requests CRAN's URL checker uses.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("cardargus", 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("StrategicProjects/cardargus")

Development version from StrategicProjects/cardargus. 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-cardargus

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-cardargus

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-cardargus

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: 6.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-28
WARNING12 OK, 2 WARNING2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.5

READMEYes · 298 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 84 (42 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 88%21 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 57%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,094 · ~7/day · ~201/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30130 days

87890 days

2.4K1 year

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Also on94 r2u11 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

strategicprojects/cardargus ↗Organization: StrategicProjects

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

38Commits

1Commit identities

38 commits · Last activity 2026-09-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 15
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-06-15 · 12026-07-07 · 1

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/strategicprojects/cardargus on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-29 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-29

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-13
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Commits: at least 23 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 8 from outside contributors, first on 2026-06-14

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.816 commits · Jun 2026
Claude Fable 54 commits · Jul 2026
Claude Opus 5.53 commits · Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cardargus adds 17 packages (12 with compiled code, 13 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fontLiberation 4.3 MB, fontquiver 2.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

glue cli digest gdtools later

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

base64enc chromote curl gfonts htmltools knitr magick rmarkdown rsvg showtext sysfonts systemfonts testthat (>= 3.0.0)xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Andre Leite

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2026)

Carlos Amorim

Author · added in 0.2.5

Diogo Bezerra

Author

Hugo Vasconcelos

Author

Marcos Wasiliew

Author · added in 0.2.5

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.5Latest
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2026-07-27 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
svg_to_pdf
0.2.4
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2026-06-14 · diff ↗
0.2.3
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2026-06-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-03-01
0.2.2
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2026-03-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
batch_svg_to_base64_chrome, batch_svg_to_png_chrome
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-02-12
repeated policy violation Even on re-submission after notification
0.2.1
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2026-02-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 11 exports
badge_row_svg, badge_svg, building_icon_svg, cardargus_font_cache_dir, construction_icon_svg, house_icon_svg, install_cardargus_fonts, map_pin_icon_svg, money_icon_svg, register_knitr_engine, setup_cardargus_fonts
0.2.0
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2026-01-31
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-31
Total releases: 6 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.0 MB

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Leite, A., Amorim, C., Bezerra, D., Vasconcelos, H., & Wasiliew, M. (2026). cardargus: Generate SVG Information Cards with Embedded Fonts and Badges (Version 0.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cardargus

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cardargus version 0.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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