R Observatory: Metrics for autometric version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

autometric

0.1.2

Background Resource Logging

0packages dependsuggested by 2

28.5Kdownloads / year

90.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by William Michael LandauCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Eli Lilly and Company

Intense parallel workloads can be difficult to monitor. Packages 'crew.cluster', 'clustermq', and 'future.batchtools' distribute hundreds of worker processes over multiple computers. If a worker process exhausts its available memory, it may terminate silently, leaving the underlying problem difficult to detect or troubleshoot. Using the 'autometric' package, a worker can proactively monitor itself in a detached background thread. The worker process itself runs normally, and the thread writes to a log every few seconds. If the worker terminates unexpectedly, 'autometric' can read and visualize the log file to reveal potential resource-related reasons for the crash. The 'autometric' package borrows heavily from the methods of packages 'ps' doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.ps and 'psutil'.

Changes in 0.1.2

Plot the last PID by default.
Speed up log_phase_set().
Do not overwrite null character in strncpy().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("autometric", 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("wlandau/autometric")

Development version from wlandau/autometric. 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-autometric

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-autometric

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-autometric

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-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
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 0.1.2

READMEYes · 480 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 11 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

28.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,759 · ~78/day · ~2.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3K30 days

5.3K90 days

28.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on481 r2u28 autocran2.1K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

wlandau/autometric ↗Account: wlandau

12Stars

1Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

6Releases

53Commits

2Commit identities

r

53 commits · Last activity 2025-10-23 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.2 (checked 2026-10-11) · Discussions: 2 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 102026-08-26 · 12

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/wlandau/autometric on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-23 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

graphicsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

grDevicesps tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

targets crew

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.5 (2024)

Dave Daeschler

Copyright holder

For the 'psutil' package. See LICENSE.note.

Eli Lilly and Company

Copyright holder, Funder

Jay Loden

Copyright holder

For the 'psutil' package. See LICENSE.note.

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder

For the 'ps' package. See LICENSE.note.

Giampaolo Rodola

Copyright holder

For the 'psutil' package. See LICENSE.note.

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Landau

no longer listed · 0.0.5 to 0.1.2

Releases (4)

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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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2024-11-15 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2024-11-14 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2024-10-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
log_phase_get, log_phase_reset, log_phase_set
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-10-10
Total releases: 4 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 165 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("autometric")

Format

Landau, W. M., Daeschler, D., Eli Lilly and Company, , Loden, J., Posit Software, PBC, , & Rodola, G. (2024). autometric: Background Resource Logging (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.autometric

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 autometric version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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