R Observatory: Metrics for QuickJSR version 1.11.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

QuickJSR

1.11.0Package record

Interface for the 'QuickJS-NG' Lightweight 'JavaScript' Engine

5packages dependsuggested by 1

6Mdownloads / year

21.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew R. JohnsonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An 'R' interface to the 'QuickJS' portable 'JavaScript' engine. The engine and all 'R' to 'JavaScript' interoperability is bundled within the package, requiring no dependencies beyond a 'C' compiler.

Changes in 1.11.0

Update bundled QuickJS-NG engine to v0.16.2 (see https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs/releases/tag/v0.16.2 for release notes)
Properly divert logging and IO through R interfaces
Resolve several bugs with R/JS object lifetime management

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("QuickJSR", 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("andrjohns/QuickJSR")

Development version from andrjohns/QuickJSR. 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-quickjsr

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-QuickJSR

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-QuickJSR

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: 4.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-30
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-29
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-04-20
ERROR7 OK, 6 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE7 OK, 7 NOTE2026-04-16
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.11.0

READMEYes · 234 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.11.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 17%1 run in a plain check · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 17%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Working with R and JS Types HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #118 · ~16.5K/day · ~500.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

413K30 days

1.6M90 days

6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on20.3K r2u11 autocran28.3K conda_forge965 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

andrjohns/quickjsr ↗Account: andrjohns

17Stars

1Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

325Commits

3Commit identities

325 commits · Last activity 2026-10-11 · Default branch at 1.11.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.11.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 02026-10-06 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/andrjohns/quickjsr on 2026-10-18.

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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

Submodules

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing QuickJSR adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

297indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rstan rstantools controlcharts S7schema jsutils

Suggests, most downloaded first

coreval

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Andrew R. Johnson

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2023)

QuickJS Authors

Copyright holder · added in 1.5.2

QuickJS sources and headers

QuickJS-NG Authors

Copyright holder · added in 1.3.0

QuickJS-NG sources and headers

Listed in earlier versions (4)

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Fabrice Bellard

no longer listed · 1.0.2 to 1.5.1

Charlie Gordon

no longer listed · 1.0.2 to 1.5.1

Johnson

no longer listed · 1.0.2 to 1.1.3

Andrew R.

no longer listed · 1.2.0 to 1.11.0

Releases (27)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-04-13
Total releases: 27 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 672 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("QuickJSR")

Format

Johnson, A. R., Authors, Q., & Authors, Q. (2026). QuickJSR: Interface for the 'QuickJS-NG' Lightweight 'JavaScript' Engine (Version 1.11.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.QuickJSR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for QuickJSR version 1.11.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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