R Observatory: Metrics for RcppBDT version 0.2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RcppBDT

0.2.8Package record

'Rcpp' Bindings for the Boost Date_Time Library

1packages depend

18.4Kdownloads / year

30.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Access to Boost Date_Time functionality for dates, durations (both for days and date time objects), time zones, and posix time ('ptime') is provided by using 'Rcpp modules'. The posix time implementation can support high-resolution of up to nano-second precision by using 96 bits (instead of 64 with R) to present a 'ptime' object (but this needs recompilation with a #define set).

Changes in 0.2.8

Replaced Rf_error with Rcpp::stop in three files
Maintenance updates to continuous integration

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RcppBDT", 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("eddelbuettel/rcppbdt")

Development version from eddelbuettel/rcppbdt. 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-rcppbdt

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-RcppBDT

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-RcppBDT

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: 4.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.8

READMEYes · 177 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · mentions 0.2.8Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 11includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 73%

Also includes 6 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

18.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,246 · ~50/day · ~1.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

3.5K90 days

18.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on375 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

eddelbuettel/rcppbdt ↗Account: eddelbuettel

18Stars

5Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

186Commits

2Commit identities

186 commits · Last activity 2026-03-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 182026-07-07 · 18

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppbdt on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RcppBDT adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

Rcppmethods

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp BH

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

IndexConstruction

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2011)

Romain Francois

Author

Releases (10)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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2011-01-18
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15

Package metadata

First published: 2011-01-18
Total releases: 10 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 40 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RcppBDT")

Format

Eddelbuettel, D., & Francois, R. (2026). RcppBDT: 'Rcpp' Bindings for the Boost Date_Time Library (Version 0.2.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RcppBDT

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 RcppBDT version 0.2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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