R Observatory: Metrics for AzureContainers version 1.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

AzureContainers

1.3.3Package record

Interface to 'Container Instances', 'Docker Registry' and 'Kubernetes' in 'Azure'

0packages depend

9.8Kdownloads / year

1.7%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hong OoiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An interface to container functionality in Microsoft's 'Azure' cloud: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/category/containers/. Manage 'Azure Container Instance' (ACI), 'Azure Container Registry' (ACR) and 'Azure Kubernetes Service' (AKS) resources, push and pull images, and deploy services. On the client side, lightweight shells to the 'docker', 'docker-compose', 'kubectl' and 'helm' commandline tools are provided. Part of the 'AzureR' family of packages.

Install

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

install.packages("AzureContainers", 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("Azure/AzureContainers")

Development version from Azure/AzureContainers. 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-azurecontainers

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-AzureContainers

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-AzureContainers

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘openssl’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.3

READMEYes · 187 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.3.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 26
Examples that run: 9%2 run in a plain check · 20 never run
Exported functions with examples: 73%
Documented parameters: 72%
Return-value docs: 60%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

Plumber model deployment HTML
RBAC examples HTML
RestRserve model deployment to ACI HTML
Securing an AKS deployment with Traefik HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

9.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,900 · ~27/day · ~816/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

58930 days

1.7K90 days

9.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on107 r2u34 autocran65 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

azure/azurecontainers ↗Organization: Azure

27Stars

19Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

332Commits

2Commit identities

razure-kubernetes-serviceazure-container-registryazure-container-instancescontainerskubernetesazure-sdk-r

332 commits · Last activity 2025-04-12

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-29 · 272026-07-07 · 27

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/azure/azurecontainers on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Governance and community (3)

Code of conduct (inherited from azure)Contributing guideSecurity policy

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing AzureContainers adds 16 packages (10 with compiled code, 4.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3

Imports (7)

utilsAzureRMR AzureGraph openssl httr R6 processx

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

knitr rmarkdown testthat uuidMASSbcrypt randomForest plumber RestRserve AzureKeyVault

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Hong Ooi

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Ramkumar Chandrasekaran

Contributor

Original blog article on Dockerising MMLS

Bill Liang

Contributor

Assistance debugging MMLS on Kubernetes

Microsoft

Copyright holder

Releases (12)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-10-15 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2020-05-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
agent_pool
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-03-11 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2019-12-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
call_docker_compose
1.1.2
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2019-11-10 · diff ↗
1.1.1
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2019-10-17 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2019-07-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
DockerRegistry, KubernetesCluster

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1.0.2
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2019-05-05 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.1
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2019-02-14 · diff ↗
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2018-12-25
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-12-25
Total releases: 12 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3
Download size: 293 KB

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("AzureContainers")

Format

Ooi, H., Microsoft, Chandrasekaran, R., & Liang, B. (2025). AzureContainers: Interface to 'Container Instances', 'Docker Registry' and 'Kubernetes' in 'Azure' (Version 1.3.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.AzureContainers

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for AzureContainers version 1.3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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