R Observatory: Metrics for archivist version 2.3.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

archivist

2.3.9Package record

Tools for Storing, Restoring and Searching for R Objects

0packages depend

8.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Przemyslaw BiecekCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Data exploration and modelling is a process in which a lot of data artifacts are produced. Artifacts like: subsets, data aggregates, plots, statistical models, different versions of data sets and different versions of results. The more projects we work with the more artifacts are produced and the harder it is to manage these artifacts. Archivist helps to store and manage artifacts created in R. Archivist allows you to store selected artifacts as a binary files together with their metadata and relations. Archivist allows to share artifacts with others, either through shared folder or github. Archivist allows to look for already created artifacts by using it's class, name, date of the creation or other properties. Makes it easy to restore such artifacts. Archivist allows to check if new artifact is the exact copy that was produced some time ago. That might be useful either for testing or caching.

Install

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

install.packages("archivist", 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("pbiecek/archivist")

Development version from pbiecek/archivist. 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-archivist

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-archivist

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-archivist

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: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.3.9

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · does not mention 2.3.9Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 40 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 6%2 run in a plain check · 29 never run
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 55%
Help pages citing references: 83%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

8.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,197 · ~23/day · ~688/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

81530 days

2.1K90 days

8.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on192 r2u43 autocran134 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

pbiecek/archivist ↗Account: pbiecek

73Stars

8Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

12Releases

1,267Commits

13Commit identities

1,267 commits · Last activity 2024-08-10 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (2.3.8) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-05-10 · 732026-09-15 · 73

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/pbiecek/archivist on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-08-10

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing archivist adds 32 packages (23 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: RSQLite 4.2 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (8)

RCurl digest httr DBI lubridate RSQLite magrittr flock

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

shiny dplyr testthat ggplot2 devtools knitr gridExtra markdown 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 (3)

Przemyslaw Biecek

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2014)

Marcin Kosinski

Author

Witold Chodor

Contributor · added in 2.0

Releases (25)

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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 4.0.0 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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areadLocal, asearchLocal, createPostgresRepo, removeTagsRepo, setPostgresRepo
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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restoreLibs
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deleteRepo, rmFromRepo
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removed 16 exports
archive, cloneGithubRepo, copyGithubRepo, createEmptyGithubRepo, createEmptyLocalRepo, deleteRepo, getTagsGithub, loadFromGithubRepo, multiSearchInGithubRepo, rmFromRepo, searchInGithubRepo, setGithubRepo, showGithubRepo, splitTagsGithub, summaryGithubRepo, zipGithubRepo

added 20 exports
addHooksToPrint, aformat, alink, asave, asession, copyRemoteRepo, createLocalRepo, createMDGallery, deleteLocalRepo, getTagsRemote, loadFromRemoteRepo, multiSearchInRemoteRepo, rmFromLocalRepo, saveToLocalRepo, searchInRemoteRepo, setRemoteRepo, showRemoteRepo, splitTagsRemote, summaryRemoteRepo, zipRemoteRepo
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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tarGithubRepo, tarLocalRepo

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addTagsRepo, cache, multiSearchInGithubRepo, multiSearchInLocalRepo, shinySearchInLocalRepo, zipGithubRepo, zipLocalRepo
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-30
Total releases: 25 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 217 KB

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Reproducible Research

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("archivist")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v082.i11.

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 archivist version 2.3.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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