Cairo

1.7-0

R Graphics Device using Cairo Graphics Library for Creating High-Quality Bitmap (PNG, JPEG, TIFF), Vector (PDF, SVG, PostScript) and Display (X11 and Win32) Output

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Overview

About

Maintained by Simon UrbanekFirst published 2007-04-1833 releasesCRAN page ↗

R graphics device using cairographics library that can be used to create high-quality vector (PDF, PostScript and SVG) and bitmap output (PNG,JPEG,TIFF), and high-quality rendering in displays (X11 and Win32). Since it uses the same back-end for all output, copying across formats is WYSIWYG. Files are created without the dependence on X11 or other external programs. This device supports alpha channel (semi-transparent drawing) and resulting images can contain transparent and semi-transparent regions. It is ideal for use in server environments (file output) and as a replacement for other devices that don't have Cairo's capabilities such as alpha support or anti-aliasing. Backends are modular such that any subset of backends is supported.

Install

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

install.packages("Cairo", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-cairo

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-Cairo

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-Cairo

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Check history

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NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 80%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 14%

Downloads

798.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #452 · ~2.2K/day · ~66.5K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.7.0

Imports (2)

grDevicesgraphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

png

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Simon Urbanek

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Simon Urbanek

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Jeffrey Horner

Author

Simon Urbanek

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-04-18
Total releases: 33 / 19 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.7.0
Download size: 108 KB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet

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