R Observatory: Metrics for R.methodsS3 version 1.8.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

R.methodsS3

1.8.2

S3 Methods Simplified

27packages depend

2.4Mdownloads / year

78.1%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonFirst published 2007-12-1127 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Methods that simplify the setup of S3 generic functions and S3 methods. Major effort has been made in making definition of methods as simple as possible with a minimum of maintenance for package developers. For example, generic functions are created automatically, if missing, and naming conflict are automatically solved, if possible. The method setMethodS3() is a good start for those who in the future may want to migrate to S4. This is a cross-platform package implemented in pure R that generates standard S3 methods.

Install

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

install.packages("R.methodsS3", 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("HenrikBengtsson/R.methodsS3")

Development version from HenrikBengtsson/R.methodsS3. 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-r.methodss3

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-R.methodsS3

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-R.methodsS3

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 53 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.18

78.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 55%
References docs: 15%

Downloads

2.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #248 · ~6.7K/day · ~202.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

170.6K30 days

537.9K90 days

2.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on38.8K r2u106 autocran211.4K conda_forge55.8K bioconda928 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ henrikbengtsson/r.methodss3

1Stars

1Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

218Commits

2Contributors

rpackagecran

218 commits · Last activity 2024-11-02

Stars over time

2024-01-24 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/henrikbengtsson/r.methodss3 on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.13.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

codetools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

27direct

439indirect

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-12-11
Total releases: 27 / 19 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2.1)
Minimum R: ≥ 2.13.0
Download size: 24 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Bengtsson, H. (2022). R.methodsS3: S3 Methods Simplified (Version 1.8.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.R.methodsS3

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for R.methodsS3 version 1.8.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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