R Observatory: Metrics for audio version 0.1-12

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

audio

0.1-12Package record

Audio Interface for R

9packages dependsuggested by 2

182.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Simon UrbanekCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Interfaces to audio devices (mainly sample-based) from R to allow recording and playback of audio. Built-in devices include Windows MM, Mac OS X AudioUnits and PortAudio (the last one is very experimental).

Changes in 0.1-12

silence more warnings and make compliant with R 4.5.0

API definitions.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("audio", 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("s-u/audio")

Development version from s-u/audio. 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-audio

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-audio

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-audio

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

1WARNING12OK

Check messages

WARNINGwhether package can be installedr-release-macos-arm64

Found the following significant warnings:
  au.c:225:10: warning: 'kAudioObjectPropertyElementMaster' is deprecated: first deprecated in macOS 12.0 [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
See ‘/Volumes/Builds/packages/sonoma-arm64/results/4.6/audio.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.
* used C compiler: ‘Apple clang version 17.0.0 (clang-1700.3.19.1)’
* used SDK: ‘MacOSX14.5.sdk’

Additional issues

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-09-08
ERROR11 OK, 1 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
WARNING13 OK, 1 WARNING2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1-12

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1-12Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 50%3 run in a plain check · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 71%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

182.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,038 · ~499/day · ~15.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

13.8K30 days

37.2K90 days

182.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3K r2u20 autocran5.2K conda_forge124 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

s-u/audio ↗Account: s-u

14Stars

8Forks

4Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

66Commits

1Commit identities

66 commits · Last activity 2025-11-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 227
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 222

Stars over time

2025-09-02 · 132026-07-07 · 14

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/s-u/audio 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 audio adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.0.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

71indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 8

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

beepr PAMpal adepro ProTrackR2 redquack music ProTrackR drumr tetRys

Suggests, most downloaded first

seewave rice

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Simon Urbanek

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-2, Copyright holder

https://urbanek.nz

Releases (11)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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Package metadata

First published: 2008-09-29
Total releases: 11 / 18 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.0.0
Download size: 57 KB

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citation("audio")

Format

Urbanek, S. (2025). audio: Audio Interface for R (Version 0.1-12) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.audio

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for audio version 0.1-12 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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