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1.6

'R Markdown' Format for Scientific and Technical Writing

3packages depend
34Kdownloads / year
50.2%test coverage
13/13checks pass

Overview

About
Maintained by Christophe DervieuxFirst published 2019-05-039 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Scientific and technical article format for the web. 'Distill' articles feature attractive, reader-friendly typography, flexible layout options for visualizations, and full support for footnotes and citations.

Install

Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
Code health
Yes
Tests · ratio 0.02
50.2%
Coverage · measured lines
100%
Documentation · exports
22
Dependencies · direct
Check history
  • OK2026-03-10
    14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

Documentation
READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
0%
Documented parameters
97%
Return-value docs
11%
References docs
0%

Downloads

34K
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #2,645 · ~93/day · ~2.8K/mo
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Repository

Repository
425Stars
58Forks
145Open issues
4Open PRs
3Releases
1,414Commits
26Contributors
License Apache-2.0 · 1,414 commits · Last activity 2023-11-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-15 · 4222026-07-07 · 425

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/distill on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)
GitHub Actions
Docs source (1)
README.Rmd
Lint, format, editor (1)
RStudio project
Coverage (1)
Codecov
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Reverse dependencies
3direct
1indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (12)
Maintainer (1)
Author, Maintainer · added in 1.4
Authors (5)
Author, Maintainer · added in 1.4
Author
Author · added in 1.0
Author
Contributors (6)
Contributor, Copyright holder
Contributor, Copyright holder
Contributor, Copyright holder
Contributor · added in 0.8
Contributor, Copyright holder
Contributor, Copyright holder
Copyright holders (6)
Contributor, Copyright holder
Contributor, Copyright holder
Contributor, Copyright holder
Contributor, Copyright holder
Contributor, Copyright holder
Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.6
Funders (1)
Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.6
Listed in earlier versions (2)
no longer listed · 0.7 to 1.3
no longer listed · 1.4 to 1.5
Package Timeline

9 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
  • R
    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
  • 1.6Latest
    2023-10-06 · current release · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
  • 1.5
    2022-09-07 · diff ↗
  • 1.4
    2022-05-12 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
  • 1.3
    2021-10-13 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
  • 1.2
    2021-01-13 · diff ↗
  • 1.1
    2020-12-02 · diff ↗
  • 1.0
    2020-10-22 · diff ↗
  • 0.8
    2020-06-04 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
  • 0.7
    2019-05-03
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  • R
    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published
2019-05-03
Total releases
9 / 7 yrs
License
Apache License 2.0 OSI
Download size
241 KB
Installed size
not tracked yet
With dependencies
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