R Observatory: Metrics for Rook version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rook

1.2.1Package record

HTTP Web Server for R

1packages depend

21.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Evan BiederstedtCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An HTTP web server for R with a documented API to interface between R and the server. The documentation contains the Rook specification and details for building and running Rook applications. To get started, be sure and read the 'Rook' help file first.

Install

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

install.packages("Rook", 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("evanbiederstedt/rook")

Development version from evanbiederstedt/rook. 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-rook

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-Rook

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-Rook

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: 2.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-04
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

Websitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

How these are measured

Downloads

21.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,776 · ~60/day · ~1.8K/mo

Rook Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

5.3K90 days

21.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on731 r2u4 autocran4.6K conda_forge157 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

evanbiederstedt/rook ↗Account: evanbiederstedtFork of jeffreyhorner/Rook

1Stars

0Forks

0Open PRs

2Releases

122Commits

12Commit identities

122 commits · Last activity 2026-07-01

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/evanbiederstedt/rook on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

CircleCI

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Rook adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 69 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: brew 69 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.13.0

Imports (4)

utilstoolsmethodsbrew

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

pagoda2

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Evan Biederstedt

Author, Maintainer since 1.2 (2022) · added in 1.2

Jeffrey Horner

Author

Previously maintained by Jeffrey Horner (1.0-1 to 1.1-1).

Releases (10)

1.2.1Latest
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2026-07-01 · current release · diff ↗
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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 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2
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2022-11-07 · diff ↗
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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
1.1-1
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2014-10-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
1.0-9
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2013-01-11 · diff ↗
1.0-8
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2012-10-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
suspend_console
1.0-5
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2012-06-02 · diff ↗
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
1.0-4
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2012-03-16 · diff ↗
1.0-3
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2012-01-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
1.0-2
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2011-04-25 · diff ↗
1.0-1
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2011-04-24
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

Package metadata

First published: 2011-04-24
Total releases: 10 / 15 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 61 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rook")

Format

Biederstedt, E., & Horner, J. (2026). Rook: HTTP Web Server for R (Version 1.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Rook

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Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Rook version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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