R Observatory: Metrics for available version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

available

1.1.0Package record

Check if the Title of a Package is Available, Appropriate and Interesting

1packages depend

16.5Kdownloads / year

44.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Check if a given package name is available to use. It checks the name's validity. Checks if it is used on 'GitHub', 'CRAN' and 'Bioconductor'. Checks for unintended meanings by querying 'Wiktionary' and Wikipedia.

Changes in 1.1.0

Removed Urban Dictionary support, as the udapi package is set to be archived.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("available", 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("r-lib/available")

Development version from r-lib/available. 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-available

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-available

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-available

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-01
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 1.1.0

READMEYes · 102 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 15 (5 internal)
Examples that run: 67%2 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 38%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

16.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,142 · ~45/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

73230 days

2.1K90 days

16.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on114 r2u29 autocran919 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/available ↗Organization: r-lib

145Stars

17Forks

15Open issues

2Open PRs

3Releases

263Commits

23Commit identities

unconf17rr-packagerstatsunconf

263 commits · Last activity 2025-10-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.1.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.1.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 28
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 1442026-07-22 · 145

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/available 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 2025-10-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing available adds 32 packages (18 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, tidytext 2.6 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (12)

cli clisymbols crayon tidytext desc glue jsonlite memoise SnowballC stringdist tibble yesno

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

usethis BiocManager testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

changer

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.5 (2021)

Author

Author

Author

Author

Previously maintained by Jim Hester (1.0.0 to 1.0.4).

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-17
Total releases: 7 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 13 KB

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Csárdi, G., Ganz, C., Hester, J., Lewis, M., & Tatman, R. (2022). available: Check if the Title of a Package is Available, Appropriate and Interesting (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.available

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for available version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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