R Observatory: Metrics for pillar version 1.11.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pillar

1.11.1Package record

Coloured Formatting for Columns

110packages dependsuggested by 55

20.6Mdownloads / year

83.4%test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kirill MüllerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides 'pillar' and 'colonnade' generics designed for formatting columns of data using the full range of colours provided by modern terminals.

Changes in 1.11.1

Features

glimpse() also works for stingy duckplyr data frames.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pillar", 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("r-lib/pillar")

Development version from r-lib/pillar. 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-pillar

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-pillar

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-pillar

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

1ERROR12OK

Check messages

ERRORre-building of vignette outputsr-release-macos-arm64

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘debugme.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘debugme.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘digits.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘digits.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘extending.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘extending.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘numbers.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Error: processing vignette 'numbers.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
there is no package called ‘sass’
--- failed re-building ‘numbers.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘printing.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Error: processing vignette 'printing.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
there is no package called ‘sass’
--- failed re-building ‘printing.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following files failed:
  ‘numbers.Rmd’ ‘printing.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERRORNow
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-27
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.11.1

READMEYes · 207 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.11.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 35 (10 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%24 run in a plain check (9 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 71%
Documented parameters: 81%
Return-value docs: 23%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

Comparison with data frames HTML
Controlling display of numbers HTML
Custom formatting HTML
Printing a tibble: Control and data flow HTML
Printing a tibble: Tracking control flow HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

20.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18 · ~56.4K/day · ~1.7M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.4M30 days

4.6M90 days

20.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on276.4K r2u188 autocran2.3M conda_forge24.9K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/pillar ↗Organization: r-lib

182Stars

42Forks

31Open issues

12Open PRs

33Releases

2,892Commits

25Commit identities

rcolour

2,892 commits · Last activity 2026-10-11 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.11.1.9034, ahead of CRAN 1.11.1 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 102
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-04 · 1812026-07-07 · 182

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

15 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/pillar on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and Windows

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductCODEOWNERS

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-27 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-14

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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 2026-04-21
Seen in the repository: .claude
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: 3 by its own account · at least 40 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 4 from outside contributors, first on 2026-09-12, 4 from forks

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 513 commits · Aug to Sep 2026
Claude Opus 5.53 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Fable 51 commit · 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

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pillar adds 6 packages (5 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

cli glue lifecycle rlang utf8 (>= 1.1.0)utilsvctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (21)

bit64 DBI debugme DiagrammeR dplyr formattable ggplot2 knitr lubridate nanotime nycflights13 palmerpenguins rmarkdown scales stringisurvivaltestthat tibble units vdiffr withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

110direct

8,262indirect

Imports 110

Suggested by 55

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 62 more dependents and 55 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Kirill Müller

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2017)

Hadley Wickham

Author

RStudio

Copyright holder

Releases (34)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.11.1Latest
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2025-09-17 · current release · diff ↗
1.11.0
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2025-07-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.10.2
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2025-04-05 · diff ↗
1.10.1
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2025-01-07 · diff ↗
1.10.0
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2024-12-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
tbl_nrow
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.9.0
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2023-03-22 · diff ↗
1.8.1
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2022-08-19 · diff ↗
1.8.0
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2022-07-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ctl_new_rowid_pillar
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.7.0
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2022-02-01 · diff ↗
1.6.5
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2022-01-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
ctl_new_compound_pillar

added 3 exports
ctl_new_pillar_list, scale_x_num, scale_y_num
1.6.4
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2021-10-18 · diff ↗

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1.6.3
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2021-09-26 · diff ↗
1.6.2
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2021-07-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.6.1
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2021-05-16 · diff ↗
1.6.0
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2021-04-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
char, num, set_char_opts, set_num_opts
1.5.1
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2021-03-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
format_glimpse
1.5.0
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2021-02-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
ctl_new_compound_pillar, ctl_new_pillar, glimpse, new_pillar, new_pillar_component, pillar_component, size_sum, tbl_format_body, tbl_format_footer, tbl_format_header, tbl_format_setup, tbl_sum
1.4.7
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2020-11-20 · diff ↗
1.4.6
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1.4.5
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2020-07-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
align
1.4.4
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2020-05-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.4.3
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2019-12-20 · diff ↗
1.4.2
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2019-06-29 · diff ↗
1.4.1
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2019-05-28 · diff ↗
1.4.0
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2019-05-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.3.1
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2018-12-15 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2018-07-14 · diff ↗
1.2.3
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2018-05-25 · diff ↗
1.2.2
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2018-04-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
format_type_sum, new_pillar_title, new_pillar_type
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.2.1
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2018-02-27 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2018-02-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
style_subtle_num
1.1.0
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2018-01-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
style_bold
1.0.1
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2017-11-27 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2017-11-20
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-20
Total releases: 34 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 1.5.0
Download size: 400 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pillar")

Format

Müller, K., RStudio, & Wickham, H. (2025). pillar: Coloured Formatting for Columns (Version 1.11.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pillar

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pillar version 1.11.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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