lofifonts

0.1.3

Text Rendering with Bitmap and Vector Fonts

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6.3Kdownloads / year

4.8%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Mike ChengFirst published 2024-11-081 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Alternate font rendering is useful when rendering text to novel graphics outputs where modern font rendering is not available or where bespoke text positioning is required. Bitmap and vector fonts allow for custom layout and rendering using pixel coordinates and line drawing. Formatted text is created as a data.frame of pixel coordinates (for bitmap fonts) or stroke coordinates (for vector fonts). All text can be easily previewed as a matrix or raster image. A selection of fonts is included with this package.

Install

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

install.packages("lofifonts", 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("coolbutuseless/lofifonts")

Development version from coolbutuseless/lofifonts. 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-lofifonts

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-lofifonts

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-lofifonts

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

4.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,196 · ~17/day · ~528/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ coolbutuseless/lofifonts

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14 commits · Last activity 2025-02-20 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Dev Container

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

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Suggests (5)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Mike Cheng

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Authors (1)

Mike Cheng

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

June Choe

Contributor

Mike Cheng

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.3Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-08
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 2.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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