R Observatory: Metrics for Require version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Require

2.0.0

Installing and Loading R Packages for Reproducible Workflows

0packages depend

12Kdownloads / year

36.1%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Eliot J B McIntireFirst published 2020-06-0518 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A single key function, 'Require' that makes rerun-tolerant versions of 'install.packages' and 'require' for CRAN packages, packages no longer on CRAN (i.e., archived), specific versions of packages, and GitHub packages. This approach is developed to create reproducible workflows that are flexible and fast enough to use while in development stages, while able to build snapshots once a stable package collection is found. As with other functions in a reproducible workflow, this package emphasizes functions that return the same result whether it is the first or subsequent times running the function, with subsequent times being sufficiently fast that they can be run every time without undue waiting burden on the user or developer.

Install

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

install.packages("Require", 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("PredictiveEcology/Require")

Development version from PredictiveEcology/Require. 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-require

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-Require

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-Require

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

Health

CRAN checks

4ERROR9OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-oldrel-macos-arm64
ERROR r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
ERROR r-release-macos-arm64
ERROR r-release-macos-x86_64

Slowest check: 5.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.37

36.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-03-10
3 OK · 10 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,501 wordsVignettesYes · staticpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 67%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 64%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

12K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,447 · ~33/day · ~998/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38430 days

3K90 days

12K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ predictiveecology/require

24Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

3,416Commits

10Contributors

3,416 commits · Last activity 2026-06-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-02-27 · 212026-07-07 · 24

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/predictiveecology/require on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-03-14

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-03-14

Evidence

claude: on or before 2026-03-14 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (6)

data.tablemethodspak systoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (21)

callr cli covr curl diffobj fpCompare gitcreds httrparallelpkgcache pkgload rematch2 rmarkdown knitr rlang roxygen2 rprojroot testthat tibble waldo withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Eliot J B McIntire

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Eliot J B McIntire

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Alex M Chubaty

Contributor · added in 0.2.5

Copyright holders (1)

His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources Canada

Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources Canada

no longer listed · 0.0.4 to 0.1.4

Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources Canada

no longer listed · 0.2.5 to 1.0.1

Package Timeline

18 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

2.0.0Latest
2026-05-16 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.1
2024-08-18 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2024-07-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.1
2023-05-22 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.0
2023-03-15 · diff ↗
0.2.6
2023-01-05 · diff ↗
0.2.5
2022-11-24 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-11-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-11-09
policy violation Disallowed use of ~/.cache/R-Require
0.1.4
2022-10-07 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2022-09-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Show 15 earlier events

0.0.13
2021-05-31 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-05-31
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-05-27
policy violation Creates '~/._RPackageCache'
0.0.12
2021-05-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.0.10
2020-12-02 · diff ↗
0.0.9
2020-11-30 · diff ↗
0.0.8
2020-09-10 · diff ↗
0.0.7
2020-08-18 · diff ↗
0.0.6
2020-08-11 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-08-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-07-31
check problems were not corrected in time
0.0.5
2020-07-17 · diff ↗
0.0.4
2020-06-05
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-05
Total releases: 18 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 402 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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McIntire, E. J. B., His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources Canada, & Chubaty, A. M. (2026). Require: Installing and Loading R Packages for Reproducible Workflows (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Require

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Require version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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