R Observatory: Metrics for r2symbols version 1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

r2symbols

1.4

Symbols for 'Markdown' and 'Shiny' Application

2packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Obinna ObianomFirst published 2020-09-095 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Direct insertion of over 1000 symbols (e.g. currencies, letters, emojis, arrows, mathematical symbols and so on) into 'Rmarkdown' documents and 'Shiny' applications by incorporating 'HTML' hex codes.

Install

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

install.packages("r2symbols", 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("oobianom/r2symbols")

Development version from oobianom/r2symbols. 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-r2symbols

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-r2symbols

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-r2symbols

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 152 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,638 · ~9/day · ~265/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

15630 days

66090 days

3.2K1 year

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Also on105 r2u6 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ oobianom/r2symbols

10Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

98Commits

1Contributors

98 commits · Last activity 2023-03-17

Stars over time

2025-02-23 · 102026-07-07 · 10

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/oobianom/r2symbols on 2026-08-03.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (3)

utilshtmltools jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

rmarkdown knitr qpdf

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

symbol.equation.gpt r2resize

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Obinna Obianom

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Obinna Obianom

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.4Latest
2023-03-11 · current release · diff ↗
1.3
2023-01-07 · diff ↗
1.2
2022-10-23 · diff ↗
1.1
2022-08-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1
2020-09-09
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-09
Total releases: 5 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 158 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("r2symbols")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.r2symbols

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{r2symbols,
  title  = {r2symbols: Symbols for 'Markdown' and 'Shiny' Application},
  author = {Obianom, Obinna},
  year   = {2023},
  note   = {R package version 1.4},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.r2symbols},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=r2symbols}
}

Derived from the package DESCRIPTION, not from a citation file the authors wrote. If they publish one later, prefer it.

This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

Cite this page

Use this when the claim is about a measurement on this page.

BibTeX

@misc{robservatoryr2symbols,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {r2symbols} version 1.4},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/r2symbols},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for r2symbols version 1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/r2symbols

RIS

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AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for r2symbols version 1.4
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/r2symbols
ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/r2symbols.

Bound to data release v2026-08-05, which is what makes the numbers on this page reproducible. See how to cite.

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