pander

Overview

About

Maintained by Gergely DarócziFirst published 2012-08-1715 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Contains some functions catching all messages, 'stdout' and other useful information while evaluating R code and other helpers to return user specified text elements (like: header, paragraph, table, image, lists etc.) in 'pandoc' markdown or several type of R objects similarly automatically transformed to markdown format. Also capable of exporting/converting (the resulting) complex 'pandoc' documents to e.g. HTML, 'PDF', 'docx' or 'odt'. This latter reporting feature is supported in brew syntax or with a custom reference class with a smarty caching 'backend'.

Install

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

install.packages("pander", 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("rapporter/pander")

Development version from rapporter/pander. 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-pander

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-pander

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-pander

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-11
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OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 6,241 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 72%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 20%

Downloads

670.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #534 · ~1.8K/day · ~55.9K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rapporter/pander

302Stars

66Forks

40Open issues

5Open PRs

17Releases

1,286Commits

24Contributors

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License OSL-3.0 · 1,286 commits · Last activity 2026-07-16 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rapporter/pander on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CIAppVeyor

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (2)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.15.0

Imports (8)

grDevicesgraphicsmethodsutilsstatsdigesttoolsRcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (24)

gridlatticeggplot2 sylly sylly.en loggersurvivalmicrobenchmark zoonlmedescrMASSknitr rmarkdown tables reshape memisc Epi randomForest tseries gtable rms forecast data.table

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

112direct

64indirect

and 64 more packages.

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Gergely Daróczi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Gergely Daróczi

Author, Maintainer

Roman Tsegelskyi

Author · added in 0.5.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-08-17
Total releases: 15 / 14 yrs
License: AGPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.15.0
Download size: 387 KB
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