R Observatory: Metrics for arrow version 25.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

arrow

25.0.1Package record

Integration to 'Apache' 'Arrow'

91packages dependsuggested by 108

3.8Mdownloads / year

78.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jonathan KeaneCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

'Apache' 'Arrow' https://arrow.apache.org/ is a cross-language development platform for in-memory data. It specifies a standardized language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations on modern hardware. This package provides an interface to the 'Arrow C++' library.

Changes in 25.0.1

Minor improvements and fixes

Improved mimalloc memory allocator configuration on macOS (#50428).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("arrow", 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("apache/arrow")

Development version from apache/arrow. 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-arrow

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-arrow

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-arrow

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: 74.7 min · r-release-linux-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-27

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-14
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-08-13
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-11
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-08-10
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-07
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-08-06
ERROR11 OK, 1 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-08-05
WARNING10 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING, 1 FAILURE2026-08-03
ERROR10 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-08-02
WARNING11 OK, 1 WARNING, 1 FAILURE2026-07-26
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-07-22
ERROR9 OK, 4 ERROR2026-07-11
OK13 OK2026-07-04
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-03
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-28
WARNING6 OK, 7 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-03-21
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 25.0.1

READMEYes · 927 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 25.0.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 133 (18 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%61 run in a plain check (24 of them under a condition) · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 55%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 49%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #238 · ~10.5K/day · ~318.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

173.5K30 days

562.5K90 days

3.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on30.9K r2u43 autocran121.5K conda_forge376 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

apache/arrow ↗Organization: apache

17,210Stars

4,381Forks

2,058Open issues

392Open PRs

40Releases

19,425Commits

1,605Commit identities

arrowparquet

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 19,425 commits · Last activity 2026-10-16 · +0.4% stars, 30d · Discussions: 65 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 36%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1,210
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-10-18 · 15,9542026-10-17 · 17,210

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/apache/arrow on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and Windows

Governance and community (5)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR templateCODEOWNERS

Automation and maintenance (2)

Dependabotpre-commit

Lint, format, editor (1)

EditorConfig

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (2)

.gitattributesSubmodules

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-01-12
Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/skills
Commits: at least 7 crediting it in the message
Julesfirst seen 2026-03-23
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message
GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-05-15
Seen in the repository: .github/copilot-instructions.md
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 15 from outside contributors, first on 2025-12-23, 15 from forks

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.51 commit · Feb 2026
Claude Sonnet 51 commit · Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

33 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing arrow adds 14 packages (9 with compiled code, 4.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (11)

assertthat bit64 gluemethodspurrr R6 rlangstatstidyselectutilsvctrs

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (24)

blob curl cli DBI dbplyr decor distro dplyr duckdb hms jsonlite knitr lubridate pillar pkgload reticulate rmarkdown stringi stringr sys testthat (>= 3.3.0)tibble tzdb withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

91direct

19indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 90

Suggested by 108

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 43 more dependents and 108 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (14)

Jonathan Keane

Author, Maintainer since 16.1.0 (2024) · added in 4.0.0

Apache Arrow

Author, Copyright holder

Ian Cook

Author · added in 4.0.0

Nic Crane

Author · added in 5.0.0

Dewey Dunnington

Author · added in 8.0.0

Romain François

Author

Bryce Mecum

Author · added in 22.0.0

Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld

Author

Jeroen Ooms

Author

Neal Richardson

Author

Jacob Wujciak-Jens

Author · added in 14.0.0

Karl Dunkle Werner

Contributor · added in 6.0.0.2

Javier Luraschi

Contributor

Jeffrey Wong

Contributor

Previously maintained by Nic Crane (11.0.0.2 to 15.0.1) and Neal Richardson (0.14.1 to 10.0.1).

Releases (61)

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25.0.1Latest
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2026-08-23 · current release · diff ↗
25.0.0
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removed 2 exports
arrow_available, type
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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decimal32, decimal64
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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ParquetReaderProperties, csv_convert_options, csv_parse_options, csv_read_options, csv_write_options, read_csv2_arrow, write_csv_dataset, write_delim_dataset, write_tsv_dataset
13.0.0.1
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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10.0.1
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9.0.0.2
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read_arrow

added 8 exports
GcsFileSystem, RecordBatchReader, arrow_with_gcs, gs_bucket, read_ipc_file, register_scalar_function, show_exec_plan, write_ipc_file
8.0.0
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added 21 exports
ExtensionArray, ExtensionType, arrow_with_substrait, as_arrow_array, as_arrow_table, as_chunked_array, as_data_type, as_record_batch, as_record_batch_reader, as_schema, concat_arrays, concat_tables, flight_disconnect, infer_type, new_extension_array, new_extension_type, register_extension_type, reregister_extension_type, unregister_extension_type, vctrs_extension_array, vctrs_extension_type
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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MapArray, MapType, decimal128, decimal256, duration, map_of
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JoinType, RoundMode, all_of, arrow_table, arrow_with_json, create_package_with_all_dependencies, to_arrow, to_duckdb
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CsvFragmentScanOptions, FragmentScanOptions, NullEncodingBehavior, ParquetFragmentScanOptions, QuantileInterpolation, RecordBatch, arrow_with_dataset, arrow_with_parquet, call_function, is_in, list_compute_functions, value_counts
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ParquetReaderProperties, push_data

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ParquetArrowReaderProperties, arrow_info, flight_path_exists, flight_put, list_flights
2.0.0
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InMemoryDataset, TimestampParser, arrow_with_s3, copy_files, flight_connect, flight_get, load_flight_server, match_arrow, push_data, s3_bucket, write_dataset
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AndExpression, ComparisonExpression, FieldExpression, FileStats, InExpression, IsValidExpression, NotExpression, OrExpression, ScalarExpression, read_record_batch, read_table

added 13 exports
CsvFileFormat, FixedSizeListArray, FixedSizeListType, LargeListArray, MetadataVersion, S3FileSystem, Scalar, StructScalar, fixed_size_binary, fixed_size_list_of, large_binary, large_list_of, large_utf8
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FeatherTableReader, FeatherTableWriter, FileSystemSourceFactory, FixedSizeBufferWriter, MockOutputStream, Source, SourceFactory, open_source

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FeatherReader, FileInfo, FileSystemDataset, FileSystemDatasetFactory, UnionDataset, binary, cpu_count, dataset_factory, install_pyarrow, map_batches, read_ipc_stream, set_cpu_count, unify_schemas, write_ipc_stream, write_to_raw
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2020-02-14
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2020-02-13
policy violation Still does not avoid downloading precompiled libraries by default, and when compiling from downloaded sources creates ~/.cmake And sometimes downloading sources fails, yet 'installs' an incomplete package
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-02-10
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2020-02-10
policy violation And bashisms in configure script
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removed 1 export
Selector

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AndExpression, ComparisonExpression, Dataset, DatasetFactory, DictionaryArray, DirectoryPartitioning, DirectoryPartitioningFactory, Expression, FieldExpression, FileFormat, FileSelector, FileSystemSourceFactory, HivePartitioning, HivePartitioningFactory, InExpression, IpcFileFormat, IsValidExpression, ListArray, NotExpression, OrExpression, ParquetFileFormat, ParquetFileWriter, ParquetWriterProperties, Partitioning, ScalarExpression, Scanner, ScannerBuilder, Source, SourceFactory, StructArray and 4 more
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0.15.0
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2019-10-07 · diff ↗ ·
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array, compression_codec, csv_convert_options, csv_parse_options, csv_read_options, csv_table_reader, json_parse_options, json_read_options, json_table_reader, parquet_arrow_reader_properties, parquet_file_reader, table, write_feather_RecordBatch

added 29 exports
Array, Buffer, ChunkedArray, Codec, CsvConvertOptions, CsvParseOptions, CsvReadOptions, CsvTableReader, Field, FileStats, FileSystem, FileType, JsonParseOptions, JsonReadOptions, JsonTableReader, LocalFileSystem, MemoryMappedFile, ParquetFileReader, ParquetReaderProperties, ParquetVersionType, RandomAccessFile, Schema, Selector, SubTreeFileSystem, Table, bool, float, halffloat, string
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-05
Total releases: 61 / 7 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Download size: 4.2 MB

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Keane, J., Apache Arrow, Cook, I., Crane, N., Dunkle Werner, K., Dunnington, D., François, R., Luraschi, J., Mecum, B., Moldovan-Grünfeld, D., Ooms, J., Richardson, N., Wong, J., & Wujciak-Jens, J. (2026). arrow: Integration to 'Apache' 'Arrow' (Version 25.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.arrow

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