R Observatory: Metrics for DSLite version 1.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DSLite

1.4.1Package record

'DataSHIELD' Implementation on Local Datasets

0packages dependsuggested by 3

7.8Kdownloads / year

58.6%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 'DataSHIELD Interface' implementation is for analyzing datasets living in the current R session. The purpose of this is primarily for lightweight 'DataSHIELD' analysis package development.

Install

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

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

Development version from datashield/DSLite. 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-dslite

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-DSLite

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-DSLite

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: 3.4 min · r-release-macos-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 1.4.1

READMEYes · 372 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 71 (4 internal)
Examples that run: 0%9 never run
Exported functions with examples: 47%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 42%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

DataSHIELD Development with DSLite HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

7.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,014 · ~21/day · ~647/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

60530 days

1.6K90 days

7.8K1 year

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Also on109 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

datashield/dslite ↗Organization: datashield

4Stars

3Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

113Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as LGPL-2.1 · 113 commits · Last activity 2025-11-06 · Default branch at 1.5.0, ahead of CRAN 1.4.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 68
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-10-24 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/datashield/dslite 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 2025-07-25

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing DSLite adds 13 packages (5 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (5)

R >= 3.5.0DSImethodsR6 rly

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

resourcer knitr testthat rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

dsBaseClient dsTidyverse dsTidyverseClient

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Yannick Marcon

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2020)

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.1Latest
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2025-07-25 · current release · diff ↗
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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
1.4.0
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2022-10-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
FunctionNode, GroupNode, Node, NumericNode, StringNode, SymbolNode, UnaryOpNode, testParse
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.3.0
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2021-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.0
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2021-03-16 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2020-05-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.0
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2020-04-10
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-10
Total releases: 6 / 6 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2.1)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.4 MB / 21 files
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("DSLite")

Format

Marcon, Y. (2025). DSLite: 'DataSHIELD' Implementation on Local Datasets (Version 1.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.DSLite

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DSLite version 1.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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