markdown

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieFirst published 2012-04-0534 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Render Markdown to full and lightweight HTML/LaTeX documents with the 'commonmark' package. This package has been superseded by 'litedown'.

Install

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

install.packages("markdown", 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("rstudio/markdown")

Development version from rstudio/markdown. 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-markdown

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-markdown

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-markdown

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 51 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.30

7.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 76 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 53%
Return-value docs: 33%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #143 · ~13.6K/day · ~414.8K/mo

Releases R versions

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468.5K30 days

1.4M90 days

5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on27.9K r2u158 autocran184.5K conda_forge842 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ rstudio/markdown

89Stars

77Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

12Releases

672Commits

16Contributors

rmarkdowncommonmark

672 commits · Last activity 2025-04-08 · +1.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-03 · 882026-07-07 · 88

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/markdown on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.11.1

Imports (3)

utilsxfun litedown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown yaml RCurl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

522direct

438indirect

and 474 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 614 (59%)Rd 264 (25%)Other 167 (16%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 40 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

7%

Expression

10.2%

Tests / Examples

7.2% / 0% ex

Functions

16 8 exported

Complexity

4.6 avg / 40 max

Call network

16 nodes / 10 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

16 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
mark_latex exp	1	0%
markdownToHTML exp	3	0%
markdown_options exp	1	0%
renderMarkdown exp	1	0%
rpubsUpload exp	40	0%
smartypants exp	1	0%

People & History

People (14)

Maintainer (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.8

Authors (3)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.8

JJ Allaire

Author

Jeffrey Horner

Author

Contributors (10)

Henrik Bengtsson

Contributor · added in 0.8

Nacho Caballero

Contributor · added in 0.8

Joe Cheng

Contributor · added in 0.8

Jim Hester

Contributor · added in 0.8

Thomas Leeper

Contributor · added in 0.8

Adam November

Contributor · added in 0.8

Andrzej Oles

Contributor · added in 0.8

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 0.8

Show 2 more contributors

Yixuan Qiu

Contributor · added in 0.8

Kohske Takahashi

Contributor · added in 0.8

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.6

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.6

Listed in earlier versions (4)

Vicent Marti

no longer listed · 0.3 to 1.2

and Natacha Porte

no longer listed · 0.3 to 0.7.7

Natacha Porte

no longer listed · 0.8 to 1.2

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.8 to 1.5

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-04-05
Total releases: 34 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.11.1
Download size: 23 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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