pikchr

1.1.1

R Wrapper for 'pikchr' (PIC) Diagram Language

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Overview

About

Maintained by Andre LeiteFirst published 2024-09-306 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An 'R' interface to 'pikchr' (https://pikchr.org, pronounced "picture"), a 'PIC'-like markup language for creating diagrams within technical documentation. Originally developed by Brian Kernighan, 'PIC' has been adapted into 'pikchr' by D. Richard Hipp, the creator of 'SQLite'. 'pikchr' is designed to be embedded in fenced code blocks of Markdown or other documentation markup languages, making it ideal for generating diagrams in text-based formats. This package allows R users to seamlessly integrate the descriptive syntax of 'pikchr' for diagram creation directly within the 'R' environment.

Install

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

install.packages("pikchr", 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("StrategicProjects/pikchr")

Development version from StrategicProjects/pikchr. 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-pikchr

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-pikchr

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-pikchr

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 741 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,160 · ~19/day · ~570/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ strategicprojects/pikchr

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56 commits · Last activity 2026-06-29

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Repository practices

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

Checks run against github.com/strategicprojects/pikchr on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (6)

cli knitr brio htmltools stringr rsvg

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

kableExtra rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Andre Leite

Author, Maintainer

Authors (5)

Andre Leite

Author, Maintainer

Carlos Amorin

Author · added in 1.1.0

Diogo Bezerra

Author · added in 1.1.0

Hugo Vaconcelos

Author

Marcos Wasilew

Author · added in 1.1.0

Contributors (2)

Richard Hipp

Contributor

Brian Kernighan

Contributor

Package Timeline

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

1.1.1Latest
2026-06-15 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.0
2026-04-08 · diff ↗
1.0.3
2025-09-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.1
2025-03-31 · diff ↗
1.0
2024-12-02 · diff ↗
0.97
2024-09-30
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-09-30
Total releases: 6 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 12 KB / 1 file
Download size: 432 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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