rpic: The 'pic' Graphics Language Rendered to SVG, PNG and PDF

Renders diagrams written in the 'pic' picture-drawing language (Kernighan, 1984) to SVG, PNG and PDF, using 'rpic' <https://github.com/milkway/rpic-lang>, a reimplementation of 'pic' in 'Rust' with no system dependencies. Includes a native circuit-element library in the spirit of 'circuit_macros', TeX math labels typeset natively, structured compile diagnostics, and a 'knitr' language engine for inline diagrams in 'R Markdown' and 'Quarto' documents.

Version:	0.6.2
Depends:	R (≥ 4.2)
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown
Published:	2026-07-15
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.rpic (may not be active yet)
Author:	André Leite [aut, cre, cph], The authors of the dependency Rust crates [cph] (see inst/AUTHORS for details) rpic author details
Maintainer:	André Leite <leite at castlab.org>
BugReports:	https://github.com/milkway/rpic-r/issues
License:	BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE
URL:	https://milkway.github.io/rpic-r/, https://github.com/milkway/rpic-r, https://github.com/milkway/rpic-lang
NeedsCompilation:	yes
SystemRequirements:	Cargo (Rust's package manager), rustc
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	rpic results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	rpic.html , rpic.pdf
Vignettes:	Circuit diagrams (source, R code) CSS class hooks and animation (source, R code) Getting started with rpic (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	rpic_0.6.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: rpic_0.6.2.zip, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): rpic_0.6.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rpic_0.6.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rpic_0.6.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rpic_0.6.2.tgz

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