distill
1.6'R Markdown' Format for Scientific and Technical Writing
3packages depend
34Kdownloads / year
50.2%test coverage
13/13checks pass
Overview
About
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
- OK2026-03-1014 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
Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.
1.3K30 days
7.4K90 days
34K1 year
Also on1.4K r2u27 autocran2.3K conda_forge35 c2d4u
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
Forks over time
2024-01-02 · 552026-07-10 · 58
Releases over time
2023-10-06 · 32026-07-07 · 3
Issues over time
2024-04-08 · 1452026-07-07 · 145
PRs over time
2023-06-20 · 32026-07-10 · 4
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
Dependencies
Declared dependencies
28 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (0)
none
Imports (22)
LinkingTo (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none
Code & Tests
People & History
People (12)
Maintainer (1)
Author, Maintainer · added in 1.4
Authors (5)
Author, Maintainer · added in 1.4
Author
Author
Author · added in 1.0
Author
Contributors (6)
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Contributor · added in 0.8
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Copyright holders (6)
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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.
- RR 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
- RR 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
- RR 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
- 1.6Latest
- RR 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
- 1.52022-09-07 · diff ↗
- 1.42022-05-12 · diff ↗
- RR 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
- 1.32021-10-13 · diff ↗
- RR 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
- 1.22021-01-13 · diff ↗
- 1.12020-12-02 · diff ↗
- 1.02020-10-22 · diff ↗
- 0.82020-06-04 · diff ↗
- RR 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
- 0.72019-05-03
Show 1 earlier events
- RR 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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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
- not tracked yet
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