textshaping

1.0.5

Bindings to the 'HarfBuzz' and 'Fribidi' Libraries for Text Shaping

6packages depend

12.6Mdownloads / year

44.2%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenFirst published 2020-09-1721 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides access to the text shaping functionality in the 'HarfBuzz' library and the bidirectional algorithm in the 'Fribidi' library. 'textshaping' is a low-level utility package mainly for graphic devices that expands upon the font tool-set provided by the 'systemfonts' package.

Install

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

install.packages("textshaping", 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("r-lib/textshaping")

Development version from r-lib/textshaping. 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-textshaping

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-textshaping

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-textshaping

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: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.11

44.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 188 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

12.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #75 · ~34.7K/day · ~1.1M/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/textshaping

20Stars

10Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

21Releases

231Commits

7Contributors

231 commits · Last activity 2026-03-18 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/textshaping on 2026-07-31.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (5)

lifecyclestatsstringi systemfontsutils

LinkingTo (2)

cpp11 systemfonts

Suggests (6)

covrgrDevicesgridknitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

483indirect

foodwebWrapper geomtextpath marquee ragg svglite ragg svglite educabR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer, Author

Authors (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer, Author

Posit Software, PBC

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.3.6

Posit, PBC

no longer listed · 0.3.7 to 1.0.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-17
Total releases: 21 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 75 KB
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