R Observatory: Metrics for TAF version 4.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

TAF

4.3.1Package record

Transparent Assessment Framework for Reproducible Research

1packages depend

6.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Arni MagnussonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

General framework to organize data, methods, and results used in reproducible scientific analyses. A TAF analysis consists of four scripts (data.R, model.R, output.R, report.R) that are run sequentially. Each script starts by reading files from a previous step and ends with writing out files for the next step. Convenience functions are provided to version control the required data and software, run analyses, clean residues from previous runs, manage files, manipulate tables, and produce figures. With a focus on stability and reproducible analyses, the TAF package comes with no dependencies. TAF forms a base layer for the 'icesTAF' package and other scientific applications.

Changes in 4.3.1

Changed internal implementation of wide2long() to support older versions of R.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("TAF", 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("ices-tools-prod/TAF")

Development version from ices-tools-prod/TAF. 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-taf

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-TAF

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-TAF

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.3.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.3.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 78 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 32%25 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 47 never run
Exported functions with examples: 99%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 1%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,253 · ~17/day · ~505/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43230 days

1.2K90 days

6.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on112 r2u6 autocran33 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ices-tools-prod/taf ↗Organization: ices-tools-prod

5Stars

3Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

33Releases

1,051Commits

8Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 1,051 commits · Last activity 2026-10-21 · +25% stars, 30d · Default branch at 4.4.0, ahead of CRAN 4.3.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 82%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 93
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2023-10-18 · 32026-10-21 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/ices-tools-prod/taf on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing TAF adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

grDeviceslatticemethodsstatstoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

icesTAF

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Arni Magnusson

Author, Maintainer since 4.0.0 (2021)

Author

Author

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
4.3.1Latest
record
2025-09-18 · current release · diff ↗
4.3.0
record
2025-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
check.software, ddim, dir.tree, draft.readme, git.repo, install.deps, pdeps, taf.example, taf.libraries, taf.pkg, wide2long
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
4.2.0
record
2023-03-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
boot.dir, boot.dir.inside, boot.exists, clean.boot, model.dir, model.script
4.1.0
record
2023-01-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
make.all, make.taf, source.all, source.dir, source.taf, taf.boot, taf2html
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
4.0.0
record
2021-04-07
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-04-07
Total releases: 5 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Bundled data: 2.3 KB / 6 files
Download size: 147 KB

Appears in task views

Reproducible Research

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("TAF")

Format

Magnusson, A., Kokkalis, A., Millar, C., Mosqueira, I., Parner, H., & Umar, I. (2025). TAF: Transparent Assessment Framework for Reproducible Research (Version 4.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.TAF

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 TAF version 4.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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