R Observatory: Metrics for certify version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

certify

0.1.0Package record

Generate Branded PDF Certificates

0packages depend

1.7Kdownloads / year

88.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cameron WimpyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Produces formal landscape PDF certificates with configurable color themes, optional logos, decorative borders, laurels, and corner ornaments. Built on 'grid' with no external 'LaTeX' or 'Quarto' dependency. Suitable for academic awards, professional recognition, and similar uses.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial release.
make_certificate() renders a landscape PDF certificate with decorative borders, corner ornaments, optional laurels, an optional logo, and one or two signature blocks.
cert_theme() constructs a color palette; convenience presets cert_theme_classic(), cert_theme_formal(), and cert_theme_warm() cover common looks.
device = c("cairo_pdf", "pdf") argument lets the caller fall back to the base pdf device on systems without Cairo (e.g. macOS without XQuartz, stripped Linux containers).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("certify", 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("cwimpy/certify")

Development version from cwimpy/certify. 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-certify

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-certify

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-certify

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: 52 s · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-05-13

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 116 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 75%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,881 · ~5/day · ~138/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25430 days

75490 days

1.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on35 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

cwimpy/certify ↗Account: cwimpy

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

12Commits

1Commit identities

12 commits · Last activity 2026-08-18 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.0, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 12026-07-15 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/cwimpy/certify on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-13
Seen in the repository: .claude
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 52 commits · Aug 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

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing certify adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 24 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: png 24 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (3)

grDevicesgridpng

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Cameron Wimpy

Releases (1)

0.1.0Latest
record
2026-05-12 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-12
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 237 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("certify")

Format

Wimpy, C. (2026). certify: Generate Branded PDF Certificates (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.certify

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 certify version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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