R Observatory: Metrics for NoviceDeveloperResources version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

NoviceDeveloperResources

1.2.0Package record

Resources to Assist Novice Developers

1packages depend

6.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Barry ZeebergCRAN page ↗

Assist novice developers when preparing a single package or a set of integrated packages to submit to CRAN. Automate the following individual or batch processing: check local source packages; build local .tar.gz source files; install packages from local .tar.gz files; detect conflicts between function names in the environment.

Install

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

install.packages("NoviceDeveloperResources", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-novicedeveloperresources

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-NoviceDeveloperResources

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-NoviceDeveloperResources

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-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 1.2.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 33%3 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

NoviceDeveloperResources HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,274 · ~17/day · ~509/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31130 days

95290 days

6.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing NoviceDeveloperResources adds 95 packages (46 with compiled code, 57 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, pak 3.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (2)

utilsdevtools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

NoviceDeveloperResources2

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Barry Zeeberg

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2023)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.2.0Latest
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2024-05-01 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
dateTable, fExistsAge, formatSearchPack, getSysLib, inSearchPath, zload
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2024-01-30 · diff ↗
1.0
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2023-11-21
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-11-21
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 788 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("NoviceDeveloperResources")

Format

Zeeberg, B. (2024). NoviceDeveloperResources: Resources to Assist Novice Developers (Version 1.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.NoviceDeveloperResources

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for NoviceDeveloperResources version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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