R Observatory: Metrics for AzureVM version 2.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

AzureVM

2.2.2Package record

Virtual Machines in 'Azure'

0packages dependsuggested by 1

8.1Kdownloads / year

40.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hong OoiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Functionality for working with virtual machines (VMs) in Microsoft's 'Azure' cloud: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/. Includes facilities to deploy, startup, shutdown, and cleanly delete VMs and VM clusters. Deployment configurations can be highly customised, and can make use of existing resources as well as creating new ones. A selection of predefined configurations is provided to allow easy deployment of commonly used Linux and Windows images, including Data Science Virtual Machines. With a running VM, execute scripts and install optional extensions. Part of the 'AzureR' family of packages.

Changes in 2.2.2

Change maintainer email address.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("AzureVM", 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/AzureVM")

Development version from Azure/AzureVM. 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-azurevm

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-AzureVM

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-AzureVM

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2.2

READMEYes · 556 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.2.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 24 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 56%9 run in a plain check · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 61%
Documented parameters: 72%
Return-value docs: 17%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to AzureVM HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

8.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,283 · ~22/day · ~677/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

50530 days

1.6K90 days

8.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on112 r2u30 autocran86 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

azure/azurevm ↗Organization: Azure

16Stars

19Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

131Commits

2Commit identities

rdata-science-virtual-machineazureazure-virtual-machineazure-sdk-r

131 commits · Last activity 2023-01-30 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.2.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.2.2 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-07-22 · 142026-07-07 · 16

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/azurevm on 2026-10-21.

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 v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing AzureVM adds 14 packages (8 with compiled code, 4.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3

Imports (3)

R6 AzureRMR jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr rmarkdown testthatparallelAzureKeyVault AzureVMmetadata

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

AzureVMmetadata

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Hong Ooi

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Microsoft

Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Data Science Virtual Machine team

no longer listed · 1.0.0

Releases (8)

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added 2 exports
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added 20 exports
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removed 2 exports
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2019-06-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 77 exports
autoscaler_config, autoscaler_profile, az_vmss_resource, az_vmss_template, build_template_definition, build_template_parameters, centos_7.5, centos_7.5_ss, centos_7.6, centos_7.6_ss, datadisk_config, debian_8_backports, debian_8_backports_ss, debian_9_backports, debian_9_backports_ss, delete_pool, image_config, init_pool, ip_config, is_vm, is_vm_resource, is_vm_scaleset, is_vm_scaleset_resource, is_vm_scaleset_template, lb_config, lb_probe, lb_probe_http, lb_probe_https, lb_probe_jupyter, lb_probe_mssql and 47 more
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Package metadata

First published: 2018-12-25
Total releases: 8 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3
Download size: 143 KB

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Format

Ooi, H., & Microsoft. (2020). AzureVM: Virtual Machines in 'Azure' (Version 2.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.AzureVM

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for AzureVM version 2.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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