rsvg

2.7.0

Render SVG Images into PDF, PNG, (Encapsulated) PostScript, or Bitmap Arrays

105packages depend

508.2Kdownloads / year

64.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsFirst published 2016-01-1523 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Renders vector-based svg images into high-quality custom-size bitmap arrays using 'librsvg2'. The resulting bitmap can be written to e.g. png, jpeg or webp format. In addition, the package can convert images directly to various formats such as pdf or postscript.

Install

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

install.packages("rsvg", 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("ropensci/rsvg")

Development version from ropensci/rsvg. 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-rsvg

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-rsvg

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-rsvg

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.50

64.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-05-24
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-14
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-11
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-10
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
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NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

508.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #564 · ~1.4K/day · ~42.4K/mo

Releases R versions

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39.2K30 days

127.6K90 days

508.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/rsvg

103Stars

2Forks

16Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

217Commits

4Contributors

217 commits · Last activity 2025-09-08

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/rsvg on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

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 (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

ggplot2 knitr magick rmarkdown spelling svglite testthat webp png

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

105direct

4indirect

and 57 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

C 265 (39%)R 237 (35%)Rd 92 (13%)Vignettes 92 (13%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 5 max
Test cases: 1 / 0.50 per code line
System requirements: 1 external

Test coverage

Line coverage

65%

Expression

65.0%

Tests / Examples

64.7% / 81% ex

Functions

23 10 exported

Complexity

2.1 avg / 5 max

Call network

23 nodes / 24 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

23 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
rsvg exp	1	0%
rsvg_eps exp	1	0%
rsvg_pdf exp	1	0%
rsvg_ps exp	1	0%
rsvg_raw exp	4	0%
rsvg_webp exp	1	0%

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Salim Brüggemann

Contributor · added in 2.2.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-15
Total releases: 23 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 254 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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