R Observatory: Metrics for RMySQL version 0.11.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RMySQL

0.11.3Package record

Database Interface and 'MySQL' Driver for R

8packages dependsuggested by 8

647.1Kdownloads / year

7.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Legacy 'DBI' interface to 'MySQL' / 'MariaDB' based on old code ported from S-PLUS. A modern 'MySQL' client written in 'C++' is available from the 'RMariaDB' package.

Changes in 0.11.3

Show a hint about MARIADB_TLS_DISABLE_PEER_VERIFICATION when failing to connect.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RMySQL", 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("r-dbi/rmysql")

Development version from r-dbi/rmysql. 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-rmysql

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-RMySQL

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
WARNING12 OK, 2 WARNING2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.11.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.11.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 24 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 78%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

647.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #647 · ~1.8K/day · ~53.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25.6K30 days

86.5K90 days

647.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.7K r2u11K conda_forge193 bioconda712 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-dbi/rmysql ↗Organization: r-dbi

209Stars

105Forks

46Open issues

0Open PRs

18Releases

445Commits

18Commit identities

rdatabasemysql

445 commits · Last activity 2026-04-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 61%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 434
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 21

Stars over time

2024-11-20 · 2082026-09-04 · 209

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-dbi/rmysql on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowAppVeyor

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

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2017-10-26

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RMySQL adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 727 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: DBI 727 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 2.8.0DBI

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat curl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 7

Suggested by 8

Show all 16 packagesHide all 16 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

africamonitor biolink readepi ugatsdb samadb ipanema PheCAP gmDatabase

Suggests, most downloaded first

quantmod sqldf pointblank ProjectTemplate dbx rvisual RSQL octopus

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.10.1

Saikat DebRoy

Author · added in 0.5-10

Jeffrey Horner

Author · added in 0.10.1

David James

Author · added in 0.10.1

Hadley Wickham

Author · added in 0.10.1

RStudio

Copyright holder · added in 0.10.1

Maintainer since 0.10 (2015), previously Jeffrey Horner (0.7-2 to 0.9-3) and David A. James (0.4-2 to 0.6-1)

Listed in earlier versions (4)

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David James Saikat DebRoy

no longer listed · 0.2-3

David A. James Saikat DebRoy

no longer listed · 0.4-2 to 0.5-9

David A. James

no longer listed · 0.5-10 to 0.9-3

Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.ooms@stat.ucla.edu> [aut, cre] David A. James [aut]

no longer listed · 0.10

Releases (59)

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dbBuildTableDefinition, .MySQLKeywords, mysqlInitDriver, mysqlCloseDriver, mysqlDescribeDriver, mysqlDriverInfo, mysqlNewConnection, mysqlCloneConnection, mysqlDescribeConnection, mysqlConnectionInfo, mysqlCloseConnection, mysqlExecStatement, mysqlQuickSQL, mysqlDBApply, mysqlFetch, mysqlResultInfo, mysqlDescribeResult, mysqlDescribeFields, mysqlCloseResult, mysqlImportFile, mysqlReadTable, mysqlWriteTable, mysqlEscapeStrings, mysqlDataType, safe.write

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MySQL, dbBuildTableDefinition, isIdCurrent, .MySQLKeywords, mysqlInitDriver, mysqlCloseDriver, mysqlDescribeDriver, mysqlDriverInfo, mysqlNewConnection, mysqlCloneConnection, mysqlDescribeConnection, mysqlConnectionInfo, mysqlCloseConnection, mysqlExecStatement, mysqlQuickSQL, mysqlDBApply, mysqlFetch, mysqlResultInfo, mysqlDescribeResult, mysqlDescribeFields, mysqlCloseResult, mysqlImportFile, mysqlReadTable, mysqlWriteTable, mysqlEscapeStrings, mysqlDataType, safe.write, CLIENT_LONG_PASSWORD, CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS, CLIENT_LONG_FLAG and 15 more
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Package metadata

First published: 2000-02-04
Total releases: 59 / 26 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI · relicensed from LGPL version 2 or later in 0.7-2
Minimum R: ≥ 2.8.0
Download size: 52 KB

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