repr

1.1.7

Serializable Representations

10packages depend

1.1Mdownloads / year

67.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Philipp AngererFirst published 2016-05-0720 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

String and binary representations of objects for several formats / mime types.

Install

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

install.packages("repr", 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("IRkernel/repr")

Development version from IRkernel/repr. 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-repr

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

# 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-repr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Check history

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

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

Downloads

1.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #469 · ~3K/day · ~89.9K/mo

repr Releases R versions

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50.2K30 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ irkernel/repr

54Stars

32Forks

33Open issues

9Open PRs

29Releases

305Commits

21Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 305 commits · Last activity 2025-07-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/irkernel/repr on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.1

Imports (6)

utilsgrDeviceshtmltools jsonlite pillar base64enc

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

methodshighr Cairo stringr testthat leaflet

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

18indirect

IRdisplay IRkernel altair hera plutor skimr ConformalSmallest expss h2o lt

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Philipp Angerer

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.9

Authors (3)

Philipp Angerer

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.9

Thomas Kluyver

Author

Jan Schulz

Author

Contributors (6)

abielr

Contributor

karldw

Contributor

Denilson Figueiredo de Sa

Contributor

Dave Foster

Contributor · added in 0.17

Jim Hester

Contributor

Carson Sievert

Contributor · added in 0.13

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Philipp A.

no longer listed · 0.6 to 0.7

Package Timeline

20 releases. 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
1.1.7Latest
2024-03-22 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.6
2023-01-26 · diff ↗
1.1.5
2023-01-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.4
2022-01-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.1.3
2021-01-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.0
2020-01-28 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2019-12-16 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2019-05-14 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2019-04-29 · diff ↗

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.19.2
2019-02-06 · diff ↗
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2018-11-27 · diff ↗
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2018-11-07 · diff ↗
0.15.0
2018-05-18 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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0.6
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-05-07
Total releases: 20 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 32 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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