# pkgdown

R package that builds a static HTML website for an R package from its documentation, vignettes and README.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/pkgdown/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/
- repository: https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdown
- docs: https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/articles/pkgdown.html

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Hadley Wickham
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: r
- runtime: r
- runtimeMin: r 4.1
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: install.packages

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-07-07

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 777
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 149
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/r-lib/pkgdown (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/articles/pkgdown.html (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/r-lib/pkgdown (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://api.github.com/repos/r-lib/pkgdown (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgdown (read 2026-10-23)
- runtimeMin: https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgdown (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgdown (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgdown (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdown/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgdown (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgdown (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/r-lib/pkgdown/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/r-lib/pkgdown/releases/latest (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/r-lib/pkgdown/releases/latest (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/r-lib/pkgdown (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/r-lib/pkgdown/contributors (read 2026-10-23)

## Notes

pkgdown builds a website for an R package from its README, its function documentation and its vignettes: the README becomes the homepage, documentation in man/ generates a function reference, and vignettes render into articles. The [getting-started guide](https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/articles/pkgdown.html) describes publishing the site through GitHub Actions.

## Worth knowing

Without GitHub, the site is rebuilt by hand each time it changes.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0