sysfonts

0.8.9

Loading Fonts into R

38packages depend

736Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yixuan QiuFirst published 2013-12-2817 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Loading system fonts and Google Fonts https://fonts.google.com/ into R, in order to support other packages such as 'R2SWF' and 'showtext'.

Install

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

install.packages("sysfonts", 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("yixuan/sysfonts")

Development version from yixuan/sysfonts. 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-sysfonts

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

NOTE2026-04-25
10 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-10
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Downloads

736K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #422 · ~2K/day · ~61.3K/mo

sysfonts Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ yixuan/sysfonts

24Stars

11Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

112Commits

3Contributors

112 commits · Last activity 2024-03-02

Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/yixuan/sysfonts on 2026-07-19.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

curl jsonlite

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

38direct

98indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (0)

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Listed in earlier versions (2)

Yixuan Qiu

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.8.9

authors/contributors of the included fonts. See file AUTHORS for details.

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.8.9

Package Timeline

17 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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2021-07-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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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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Package metadata

First published: 2013-12-28
Total releases: 17 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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