R Observatory: Metrics for ProjectTemplate version 0.11.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ProjectTemplate

0.11.2Package record

Automates the Creation of New Statistical Analysis Projects

0packages depend

11.1Kdownloads / year

75.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kenton WhiteCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions to automatically build a directory structure for a new R project. Using this structure, 'ProjectTemplate' automates data loading, preprocessing, library importing and unit testing.

Install

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

install.packages("ProjectTemplate", 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("KentonWhite/ProjectTemplate")

Development version from KentonWhite/ProjectTemplate. 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-projecttemplate

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-ProjectTemplate

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-ProjectTemplate

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: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-29
OK14 OK2026-04-12
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-09
ERROR8 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-26
NOTE8 OK, 6 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.11.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.11.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 67 (46 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%19 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 78%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 78%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

11.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,279 · ~31/day · ~928/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

69830 days

2K90 days

11.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on123 r2u11 autocran65 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

kentonwhite/projecttemplate ↗Account: KentonWhite

630Stars

155Forks

17Open issues

1Open PRs

22Releases

739Commits

28Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 739 commits · Last activity 2026-05-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 30
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-10-05 · 6252026-08-14 · 630

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/kentonwhite/projecttemplate on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowAppVeyor

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

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-22

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ProjectTemplate adds 11 packages (8 with compiled code, 4.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 2.7digest tibble

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (25)

foreignfeather reshape plyr formatR stringr ggplot2 lubridate log4r DBI RMySQL RSQLite gdata RODBC RJDBC readxl xlsx tuneR pixmap data.table RPostgreSQL GetoptLong whisker testthat reticulate

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (15)

Kenton White

Contributor, Maintainer since 0.7 (2016) · added in 0.5

John Myles White

Author, Copyright holder

Aleksandar Blagotic

Contributor · added in 0.5

Josh Bode

Contributor · added in 0.5

Jeffrey Breen

Contributor · added in 0.5

Glen Falk

Contributor · added in 0.11.0

Gerold Hepp

Contributor · added in 0.9.3

Zunaira Jamil

Contributor · added in 0.11.0

Noah Lorang

Contributor · added in 0.5

Joakim Lundborg

Contributor · added in 0.5

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Kirill Mueller

Contributor · added in 0.5

Matteo Redaelli

Contributor · added in 0.5

Patrick Schalk

Contributor · added in 0.5

Dominik Schneider

Contributor · added in 0.7

Diego Valle-Jones

Contributor · added in 0.5

Previously maintained by Kirill Mueller (0.5 to 0.6) and John Myles White (0.1-1 to 0.4-2).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Zunaira Jamile

no longer listed · 0.10.1 to 0.10.4

Releases (25)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.11.2Latest
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2026-04-06 · current release · diff ↗
0.11.1
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2025-08-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.11.0
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2024-07-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.10.4
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2023-11-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.10.3
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2023-02-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.10.2
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2021-07-31 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.10.1
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2021-02-08 · diff ↗
0.10.0
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2021-01-08 · diff ↗
0.9.3
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2020-12-04 · diff ↗
0.9.2
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2020-05-11 · diff ↗

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.9.1
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2020-04-15 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.9.0
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2019-02-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
loadproject_addin, reloadproject_addin
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.8.2
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2018-04-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
create.template, migrate.template
0.8
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2017-08-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
add.config, clear, clear.cache, list.data, project.config
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.7
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2016-08-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.6
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2014-10-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
.add.extension, migrate.project
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.5-1
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2014-03-17 · diff ↗
0.5
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2014-03-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
get.project, require.package, translate.dcf
R
R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.4-2
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2012-05-13 · diff ↗
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
R
R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
0.3-5
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2011-07-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
cache.project
0.3-4
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2011-07-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
run.tests

added 3 exports
show.project, stub.tests, test.project
0.3-3
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2011-07-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
cache, create.project, load.project, reload.project, run.project, run.tests
R
R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
0.1-3
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2010-10-03 · diff ↗
0.1-2
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2010-08-27 · diff ↗
0.1-1
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2010-08-25
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2010-08-25
Total releases: 25 / 16 yrs
License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from Artistic-2.0 in 0.9.0
Minimum R: ≥ 2.7
Download size: 237 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ProjectTemplate")

Format

White, K., Blagotic, A., Bode, J., Breen, J., Falk, G., Hepp, G., Jamil, Z., Lorang, N., Lundborg, J., Mueller, K., Redaelli, M., Schalk, P., Schneider, D., Valle-Jones, D., & White, J. M. (2026). ProjectTemplate: Automates the Creation of New Statistical Analysis Projects (Version 0.11.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ProjectTemplate

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 ProjectTemplate version 0.11.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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