R Observatory: Metrics for PkgsFromFiles version 0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2019-03-18. Its history is shown below.

Reason: policy violation

Details below reflect version 0.5, its last release before removal.

PkgsFromFiles

0.5Package record

Finding and Installing Packages Used in R and RMarkdown Files

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marcelo PerlinCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Includes functions for finding and installing used R packages from local scripts and Rmarkdown files.

Changes in 0.5

First version

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/PkgsFromFiles/PkgsFromFiles_0.5.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "PkgsFromFiles_0.5.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.5) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("msperlin/PkgsFromFiles")

Development version from msperlin/PkgsFromFiles. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5

READMEYes · 268 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.5Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 67%4 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

PkgsFromFiles Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

Compare downloads with other packages →

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

stringr XML dplyr readr stringdist curl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown testthat ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Marcelo Perlin

Author, Maintainer since 0.5 (2018)

Releases (1)

R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-03-18
policy violation
0.5
record
2018-10-28
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-10-28
Total releases: 1 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("PkgsFromFiles")

Format

Perlin, M. (n.d.). PkgsFromFiles: Finding and Installing Packages Used in R and RMarkdown Files (Version 0.5) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 27, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PkgsFromFiles

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 PkgsFromFiles version 0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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