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We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to r-lib/downlit to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars: 90
Forks: 27
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 36

Dominant language: R
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Jul 6, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: No beginner labels indexed
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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Use rdtools
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

r-lib/downlit#206 · Opened Jul 6, 2026
`plot.lm()` doesn't auto link (but others like `summary.lm()` work)
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

r-lib/downlit#205 · Opened Nov 23, 2025
Unstated Suggests dependencies on ggraph, tidyverse
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-lib/downlit#203 · Opened Nov 23, 2025
Unit test failure following digest DESCRIPTION change
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#199 · Opened Nov 10, 2025
Line numbering in bs4 code chunks
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#197 · Opened Jan 23, 2025
Eliminate digest dependency
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#196 · Opened Jan 20, 2025
FR: Allow use of https://search.r-project.org refmans for autolinking
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feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

r-lib/downlit#195 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2024
Auto-linking to documentation for re-exported S3 methods
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-lib/downlit#194 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 8, 2024
downlit_md_path() does not have a classes argument
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#188 · 1 comment · Opened May 26, 2024
Should `{downlit}` be smarter about detecting the pkgdown website URL from `DESCRIPTION`?
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feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#186 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 22, 2024
CRAN_urls() ignores pkgdown.internet = FALSE *and* overwrites default proxy
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bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#184 · Opened Feb 8, 2024
Use standard argument checkers
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upkeep

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

r-lib/downlit#180 · Opened Oct 31, 2023
Use `cli_abort()`
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upkeep

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

r-lib/downlit#179 · Opened Oct 31, 2023
Should pkgdown protect package names in {} when inside brackets? (formatted as code)
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bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

r-lib/downlit#176 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 29, 2023
Don't link in Quarto TOC
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bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#174 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2023
Special case library(tidymodels)
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feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

r-lib/downlit#173 · Opened Jul 13, 2023
Truncated HTML file after `downlit_html_path()` processing
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feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#172 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 7, 2023
Capture warnings from examples to log
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feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-lib/downlit#185 · Opened Apr 26, 2023
build_news() trying cran.rstudio.com despite pkgdown.internet = FALSE
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feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-lib/downlit#177 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 25, 2023
Inline code in table cells not linked
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bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-lib/downlit#165 · Opened Dec 7, 2022
fail gracefully if packages cannot be referenced
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bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

r-lib/downlit#162 · Opened Oct 16, 2022
rd2html doesn't handle all links correctly
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bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-lib/downlit#163 · Opened Sep 12, 2022
Replace "curly" package names with plain text
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feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-lib/downlit#158 · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 8, 2022
`downlit_md_path()` doesn't (necessarily?) write to `out_path`
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bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-lib/downlit#157 · Opened Aug 17, 2022
Autolinking Quarto html remove the "copy-code" button
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bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#156 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2022
downlit does not keep code source option set with knitr
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-lib/downlit#149 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 28, 2022
R6 class of local package does not get highlighted (inline)
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reprex

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#140 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 6, 2022
`downlit_html_*` should support Pandoc's document with numbered line
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feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#133 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 18, 2022
Use pandoc package to test multiple pandoc versions
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

r-lib/downlit#132 · Opened Mar 14, 2022
consider --standalone output
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feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#123 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 18, 2021
Detect calls to install_github()
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

r-lib/downlit#102 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 31, 2021
downlit_md_path() should only modify R CodeBlocks
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bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-lib/downlit#75 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 4, 2021
Update table parsing for new AST
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bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

r-lib/downlit#67 · Opened Oct 29, 2020
Manually style ANSI colours
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feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#66 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 25, 2020
Generalise classes argument to highlight
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

r-lib/downlit#24 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 15, 2020
store Rd elements as data-attributes for later use in tooltips (progressive enhancement)?
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feature help wanted :heart:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/downlit#18 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2020

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