tufte

0.15.0

Tufte's Styles for R Markdown Documents

11packages depend

88.2Kdownloads / year

76.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christophe DervieuxFirst published 2016-01-2015 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides R Markdown output formats to use Tufte styles for PDF and HTML output.

Install

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

install.packages("tufte", 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("rstudio/tufte")

Development version from rstudio/tufte. 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-tufte

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-tufte

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

Downloads

88.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,383 · ~242/day · ~7.4K/mo

tufte Releases R versions

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5.4K30 days

23.3K90 days

88.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rstudio/tufte

430Stars

110Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

256Commits

13Contributors

tuftetufte-styler-packager-markdown

256 commits · Last activity 2026-07-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/tufte on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

htmltools knitr rmarkdown xfun (>= 0.13)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

xml2 bookdown covr testthat tinytex withr (>= 2.3.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

0indirect

qeML CHNOSZ PowerTOST bookdown chronicle evalR lintr nipnTK recmap repoRter.nih secuTrialR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Christophe Dervieux

Contributor, Maintainer · added in 0.10

Authors (2)

JJ Allaire

Author

Yihui Xie

Author

Contributors (3)

Christophe Dervieux

Contributor, Maintainer · added in 0.10

Dave Liepmann

Contributor

Andrzej Oles

Contributor · added in 0.3

Posit Software, PBC

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio, Inc.

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.5

RStudio, PBC

no longer listed · 0.6 to 0.12

Package Timeline

15 releases. R releases are shown for context.

0.15.0Latest
2026-05-21 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.14.0
2025-07-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.13
2023-06-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.12
2022-01-28 · diff ↗
0.11
2021-12-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.10
2021-05-17 · diff ↗
0.9
2020-12-02 · diff ↗
0.8
2020-10-30 · diff ↗
0.7
2020-09-25 · diff ↗
0.6
2020-05-08 · diff ↗

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5
2019-05-12 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4
2018-07-15 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3
2018-01-24 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2
2016-02-07 · diff ↗
0.1
2016-01-20
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-20
Total releases: 15 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 246 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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