simPDF: Fast Multi-Page PDF Report Layout on the Graphics Device

A lightweight, dependency-free engine to build multi-page PDF reports quickly on top of R's built-in graphics device ('pdf'/'cairo_pdf'). Content is placed by a measured flow layout: every text block reports its real width and height via 'strwidth'/'strheight', the vertical cursor advances by measured height, and pages break automatically. This eliminates the text-overlap of dead-reckoned coordinate reports (such as the 'nmw' NONMEM diagnostic reports) and replaces slow '.Rmd'/'knitr'/'LaTeX' pipelines for fixed report generation: no external toolchain is started and the document is written in a single pass. Interactive AcroForm CRFs are out of scope.

Version:	0.1.2
Depends:	R (≥ 3.6.0)
Imports:	grDevices, graphics
Suggests:	tinytest, png, jpeg, knitr, rmarkdown
Published:	2026-09-13
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.simPDF
Author:	Kyun-Seop Bae [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Kyun-Seop Bae <k at acr.kr>
License:	GPL-3
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	simPDF results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	simPDF.html , simPDF.pdf
Vignettes:	simPDF: Fast Multi-Page PDF Reports (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	simPDF_0.1.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: simPDF_0.1.1.zip, r-release: simPDF_0.1.1.zip, r-oldrel: simPDF_0.1.1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): simPDF_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): simPDF_0.1.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): simPDF_0.1.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): simPDF_0.1.2.tgz
Old sources:	simPDF archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:

nmw

Linking:

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