R Observatory: Metrics for pkgdown version 2.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pkgdown

2.2.1Package record

Make Static HTML Documentation for a Package

4packages dependsuggested by 303

2.8Mdownloads / year

87.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Generate an attractive and useful website from a source package. 'pkgdown' converts your documentation, vignettes, 'README', and more to 'HTML' making it easy to share information about your package online.

Changes in 2.2.1

Test fix for R CMD check.
When previewing a site, it is now served via a local http server. This enables dynamic features such as search to work correctly (@shikokuchuo, #2975).
Code in a link (href) is no longer autolinked (#2972)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pkgdown", 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/pkgdown")

Development version from r-lib/pkgdown. 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-pkgdown

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-pkgdown

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-pkgdown

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: 6.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-01
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-29
OK13 OK2026-09-18
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-15
OK13 OK2026-09-11

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-09
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-29
OK13 OK2026-07-11
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-27
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2.1

READMEYes · 341 wordsVignettesYes · 8 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.2.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 39 (18 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%9 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 16%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 8%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (8)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #216 · ~7.6K/day · ~231.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

204.3K30 days

676.9K90 days

2.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on128.2K r2u6 autocran235.9K conda_forge59 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/pkgdown ↗Organization: r-lib

776Stars

358Forks

80Open issues

36Open PRs

27Releases

2,575Commits

155Commit identities

rpackagedocumentation-tool

2,575 commits · Last activity 2026-08-12 · +0.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.2.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.2.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-09 · 7712026-09-24 · 776

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

18 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/pkgdown on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (3)

Code of conductContributing guideCODEOWNERS

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-07

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (2)

.gitattributesblame-ignore revs

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-06
Seen in the repository: .claude
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-04-22, 1 from forks

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

37 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pkgdown adds 54 packages (33 with compiled code, 37 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (20)

bslib callr cli desc (>= 1.4.0)downlit fontawesome fs httr2 jsonlite lifecycle openssl purrr ragg rlang rmarkdown tibble whisker withr xml2 yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (19)

covr diffviewer evaluate gert gt htmltools htmlwidgets knitr magickmethodsnanonext (>= 1.8.0)pkgload quarto rsconnect rstudioapi rticles sass testthattools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

74indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 303

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

devtools CALANGO pkgdown.offline washr

Suggests, most downloaded first

and 259 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Salim Brüggemann

Author · added in 2.1.0

Jay Hesselberth

Author

Olivier Roy

Author · added in 2.1.0

Maëlle Salmon

Author · added in 2.0.0

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.0.8

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2.0.7

Releases (26)

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2.2.1Latest
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2026-07-07 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.2.0
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2025-11-06 · diff ↗
2.1.3
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2025-05-25 · diff ↗
2.1.2
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2025-04-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.1.1
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2024-09-18 · diff ↗
2.1.0
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2024-07-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.0.9
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2024-04-18 · diff ↗
2.0.8
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2024-04-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.0.7
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2022-12-14 · diff ↗
2.0.6
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2022-07-16 · diff ↗
2.0.5
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2022-06-23 · diff ↗
2.0.4
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2022-06-10 · diff ↗

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2.0.3
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2022-04-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.0.2
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2022-01-13 · diff ↗
2.0.1
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2021-12-03 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2021-11-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.6.1
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2020-09-12 · diff ↗
1.6.0
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2020-09-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 26 exports
addterm, as_pkgdown, autolink_html, build_article, build_articles, build_articles_index, build_favicon, build_favicons, build_home, build_news, build_reference, build_reference_index, build_site, build_tutorials, clean_site, data_template, deploy_site_github, deploy_to_branch, in_pkgdown, init_site, preview_site, rd2html, render_page, template_articles, template_navbar, template_reference
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.5.1
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2020-04-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
build_articles_index
1.5.0
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2020-03-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
deploy_to_branch
1.4.1
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2019-09-15 · diff ↗
1.4.0
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2019-09-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
build_favicons
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.3.0
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2018-12-07 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2018-11-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
build_favicon, deploy_site_github, rd2html
1.1.0
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2018-06-03 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2018-05-03
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-03
Total releases: 26 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 1.2 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pkgdown")

Format

Wickham, H., Posit Software, PBC, Brüggemann, S., Hesselberth, J., Roy, O., & Salmon, M. (2026). pkgdown: Make Static HTML Documentation for a Package (Version 2.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pkgdown

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pkgdown version 2.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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