R Observatory: Metrics for DSI version 1.8.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DSI

1.8.0Package record

'DataSHIELD' Interface

5packages dependsuggested by 2

9.7Kdownloads / year

6.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yannick MarconCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

'DataSHIELD' is an infrastructure and series of R packages that enables the remote and 'non-disclosive' analysis of sensitive research data. This package defines the API that is to be implemented by 'DataSHIELD' compliant data repositories.

Install

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

install.packages("DSI", 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("datashield/DSI")

Development version from datashield/DSI. 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-dsi

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-DSI

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-DSI

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.8.0

READMEYes · 707 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 81 (18 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 3%1 run in a plain check · 38 never run
Exported functions with examples: 64%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 60%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

9.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,268 · ~27/day · ~811/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

72130 days

2K90 days

9.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on764 r2u5 autocran70 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

datashield/dsi ↗Organization: datashield

2Stars

8Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

14Releases

187Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as LGPL-2.1 · 187 commits · Last activity 2025-11-05

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: 8

Stars over time

2023-09-22 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/datashield/dsi on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-11-05

pkgdown site last built 2025-11-05

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing DSI adds 11 packages (4 with compiled code, 2.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (4)

R >= 4.3methodsprogress R6

Imports (1)

cli

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

1indirect

Depends 4 · Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

DSLite DSMolgenisArmadillo DSOpal dsBaseClient dsTidyverseClient

Suggests, most downloaded first

dsROCrate dsTidyverse

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Yannick Marcon

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2020)

Paul Burton

Contributor

Tim Cadman

Contributor · added in 1.7.0

Amadou Gaye

Contributor

Releases (11)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.8.0Latest
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2025-11-03 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
datashield.sessions, dsHasSession, dsIsReady, dsSession, dsStateMessage
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.7.1
record
2024-11-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
datashield.errorMessages
1.7.0
record
2024-10-08 · diff ↗
1.6.0
record
2024-05-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.5.0
record
2022-10-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
datashield.workspace_restore, dsRestoreWorkspace
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.4.0
record
2022-04-06 · diff ↗
1.3.0
record
2021-06-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
datashield.profiles, dsListProfiles
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.0
record
2021-03-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
dsIsCompleted, dsKeepAlive
1.1.1
record
2020-12-16 · diff ↗
1.1.0
record
2020-05-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
datashield.assign.resource, datashield.errors, datashield.resource_status, datashield.resources, datashield.tables, dsAssignResource, dsHasResource, dsListResources

Show 3 earlier eventsHide 3 earlier events

R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.0
record
2020-04-03
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-03
Total releases: 11 / 6 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2.1)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3
Download size: 47 KB

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Official Statistics & Survey Statistics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("DSI")

Format

Marcon, Y., Burton, P., Cadman, T., & Gaye, A. (2025). DSI: 'DataSHIELD' Interface (Version 1.8.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.DSI

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DSI version 1.8.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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