R Observatory: Metrics for argparser version 0.7.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

argparser

0.7.3

Command-Line Argument Parser

3packages depend

39.6Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by David J. H. ShihFirst published 2014-05-307 releasesCRAN page ↗Bitbucket ↗

Cross-platform command-line argument parser written purely in R with no external dependencies. It is useful with the Rscript front-end and facilitates turning an R script into an executable script.

Install

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

install.packages("argparser", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-argparser

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-argparser

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-argparser

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 47 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.11

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 320 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 86%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

39.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,368 · ~109/day · ~3.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.2K30 days

8.3K90 days

39.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on743 r2u8 autocran18.3K conda_forge133 bioconda

Repository

Bitbucket ↗ djhshih/argparser

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Repository bitbucket.org/djhshih/argparser is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

methods

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

DICErClust ogrdbstats growthcleanr

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

David J. H. Shih

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3

Authors (1)

David J. H. Shih

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3

Listed in earlier versions (2)

David JH Shih

no longer listed · 0.1

Shih

no longer listed · 0.7.3

Package Timeline

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

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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.7.1
2021-03-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.6
2019-12-17 · diff ↗
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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
0.4
2016-04-04 · diff ↗

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0.3
2015-07-10 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.1
2014-05-30
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-05-30
Total releases: 7 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 15 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("argparser")

Format

Shih, D. J. H. (2026). argparser: Command-Line Argument Parser (Version 0.7.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.argparser

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for argparser version 0.7.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-07. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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