R Observatory: Metrics for GetoptLong version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GetoptLong

1.1.1Package record

Parsing Command-Line Arguments

4packages dependsuggested by 2

855.7Kdownloads / year

61.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zuguang GuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

This is a command-line argument parser which wraps the powerful Perl module Getopt::Long and with some adaptations for easier use in R.

Install

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

install.packages("GetoptLong", 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("jokergoo/GetoptLong")

Development version from jokergoo/GetoptLong. 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-getoptlong

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-GetoptLong

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-GetoptLong

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: 3.0 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 1.1.1

READMEYes · 46 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileNo

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 20%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

855.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #582 · ~2.3K/day · ~71.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33.3K30 days

112.1K90 days

855.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on12K r2u13 autocran60.7K conda_forge321 bioconda48 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

jokergoo/getoptlong ↗Account: jokergoo

17Stars

3Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

229Commits

1Commit identities

229 commits · Last activity 2026-02-06 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.1.0) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 66
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-10-03 · 172026-07-07 · 17

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jokergoo/getoptlong on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-06

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GetoptLong adds 3 packages (1 with compiled code, 489 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: GlobalOptions 373 KB, rjson 77 KB, crayon 39 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (4)

rjson GlobalOptionsmethodscrayon

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat knitr markdown rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

1indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

pkgndep reproducer bsub spiralize

Suggests, most downloaded first

GlobalOptions ProjectTemplate

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Zuguang Gu

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.2 (2013)

Releases (25)

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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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2020-07-05 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2020-06-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
source_script
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.8
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2020-01-09 · diff ↗

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-06-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_scriptdir
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2015-03-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
GetOptions
0.0.9
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2015-01-29 · diff ↗
0.0.8
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2014-11-06 · diff ↗
0.0.7
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2014-10-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
GetoptLong.options, qq.options
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2014-07-30 · diff ↗
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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0.0.2
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2013-11-28
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-11-28
Total releases: 25 / 13 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 2) in 0.1.7
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("GetoptLong")

Format

Gu, Z. (2026). GetoptLong: Parsing Command-Line Arguments (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.GetoptLong

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 GetoptLong version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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