R Observatory: Metrics for utf8ify version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

utf8ify

0.2.0Package record

Format Text Using Unicode

0packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Roland KrasserCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Format text (bold, italic, ...) and numbers using UTF-8. Offers functions to search for emojis and include them in your text.

Install

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

install.packages("utf8ify", 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("rolkra/utf8ify")

Development version from rolkra/utf8ify. 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-utf8ify

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-utf8ify

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-utf8ify

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: 2.3 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 226 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

utf8ify HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,918 · ~5/day · ~151/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19230 days

45690 days

1.8K1 year

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Also on77 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

rolkra/utf8ify ↗Account: rolkra

5Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

30Commits

1Commit identities

30 commits · Last activity 2025-10-28 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.0, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-23 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rolkra/utf8ify on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing utf8ify adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

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)

Roland Krasser

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
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2025-10-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
utf8_text_monospace
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
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2025-01-07
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-01-07
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 262 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("utf8ify")

Format

Krasser, R. (2025). utf8ify: Format Text Using Unicode (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.utf8ify

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 utf8ify version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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