accessr

1.1.3

Command Line Tools to Produce Accessible Documents using 'R Markdown'

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Overview

About

Maintained by Paul J. NorthropFirst published 2024-04-284 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functions to produce accessible 'HTML' slides, 'HTML', 'Word' and 'PDF' documents from input 'R markdown' files. Accessible 'PDF' files are produced only on a 'Windows' Operating System. One aspect of accessibility is providing a headings structure that is recognised by a screen reader, providing a navigational tool for a blind or partially-sighted person. A key aim is to produce documents of different formats easily from each of a collection of 'R markdown' source files. Input 'R markdown' files are rendered using the render() function from the 'rmarkdown' package https://cran.r-project.org/package=rmarkdown. A 'zip' file containing multiple output files can be produced from one function call. A user-supplied template 'Word' document can be used to determine the formatting of an output 'Word' document. Accessible 'PDF' files are produced from 'Word' documents using 'OfficeToPDF' https://github.com/cognidox/OfficeToPDF. A convenience function, install_otp() is provided to install this software. The option to print 'HTML' output to (non-accessible) 'PDF' files is also available.

Latest changes · 1.1.3

Install

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

install.packages("accessr", 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("paulnorthrop/accessr")

Development version from paulnorthrop/accessr. 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-accessr

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

# 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-accessr

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-03-10
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Repository

GitHub ↗ paulnorthrop/accessr

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License GPL-3.0 · 367 commits · Last activity 2026-01-04

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cran-comments.md

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

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14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (1)

rmarkdown

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Paul J. Northrop

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Paul J. Northrop

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Paul J. Northrop

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Package Timeline

4 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.3Latest
2025-03-30 · current release · diff ↗
1.1.2
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1.1.1
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1.0.1
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-04-28
Total releases: 4 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 532 KB
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