R Observatory: Metrics for ShinyBlock version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ShinyBlock

0.1.3Package record

Multi-Protocol Blockchain Simulator and Enterprise Ledger Framework

0packages depend

897downloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Isaac OseiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An interactive framework for simulating blockchain protocols using a hybrid 'R-Shiny' and 'Python' architecture. The package provides tools to visualize peer-to-peer network maps, manage supply chain logistics on-chain, and execute cross-border settlements via smart contract logic. It leverages the 'reticulate' package to perform standardized cryptographic operations, including 'SHA-256' hashing, 'Merkle' Tree construction, and 'ECDSA' (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) key generation. This tool is designed for pedagogical demonstration and rapid prototyping of distributed ledger requirements.

Install

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

install.packages("ShinyBlock", 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("ikemillar/ShinyBlock")

Development version from ikemillar/ShinyBlock. 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-shinyblock

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-ShinyBlock

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-ShinyBlock

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: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-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
OK7 OK2026-06-12

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.3

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 50%1 run in a plain check (under a condition) · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

897

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,067 · ~2/day · ~75/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19230 days

56390 days

8971 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on19 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ikemillar/shinyblock ↗Account: ikemillar

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-05-24 · The default branch showed an older version (0.1.1) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

not measured

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/ikemillar/shinyblock on 2026-10-18.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ShinyBlock adds 52 packages (27 with compiled code, 51 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

shiny reticulate reactable networkD3 bslib jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Isaac Osei

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.3 (2026)

Yamini Alakunta

Author

Releases (1)

0.1.3Latest
record
2026-06-11 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-11
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 11 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ShinyBlock")

Format

Osei, I., & Alakunta, Y. (2026). ShinyBlock: Multi-Protocol Blockchain Simulator and Enterprise Ledger Framework (Version 0.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ShinyBlock

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 ShinyBlock version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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