R Observatory: Metrics for baRcodeR version 0.1.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

baRcodeR

0.1.7Package record

Label Creation for Tracking and Collecting Data from Biological Samples

0packages depend

4.8Kdownloads / year

55.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert ColauttiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Tools to generate unique identifier codes and printable barcoded labels for the management of biological samples. The creation of unique ID codes and printable PDF files can be initiated by standard commands, user prompts, or through a GUI addin for R Studio. Biologically informative codes can be included for hierarchically structured sampling designs.

Changes in 0.1.7

Thanks to rwalke for adding "Linear2" to the option list (Linear, Matrix). This will produce Code 128 extended linear barcodes, allowing for particular 1-D barcode patterns that are distinct from "Linear"

Thanks to Theirry() for pointing out that we need to change qrcode::qr_code() from (deprecated) qrcode_gen

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("baRcodeR", 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("ropensci/baRcodeR")

Development version from ropensci/baRcodeR. 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-barcoder

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-baRcodeR

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-baRcodeR

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-release-macos-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 0.1.7

READMEYes · 701 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.7Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Quick Start to Use baRcodeR HTML
Use baRcodeR addin HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,467 · ~13/day · ~402/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40930 days

1.3K90 days

4.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on100 r2u35 autocran1.6K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/barcoder ↗Organization: ropensciFork of nine2k/II-I-II-baRcodes-I-II-III

37Stars

13Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

430Commits

8Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 430 commits · Last activity 2024-01-31 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.8, ahead of CRAN 0.1.7 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 45
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-09-09 · 362026-07-30 · 37

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/barcoder on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-11-27

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing baRcodeR adds 45 packages (22 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0.0qrcode

Imports (6)

DTgrDevicesgridminiUI rstudioapi shiny

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr knitr rmarkdown shinytest testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Robert Colautti

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.7 (2022)

Yihan Wu

Author

Emily Bao

Contributor · added in 0.1.4

Rayna Harris

Reviewer · added in 0.1.4

Lluís Revilla Sancho

Reviewer · added in 0.1.4

Previously maintained by Yihan Wu (0.1.4 to 0.1.5) and Robert Colautti (0.1.0 to 0.1.3).

Releases (7)

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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 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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code_128_make2
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cheatsheet
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code_128_make
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2018-11-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
barcode_make

added 1 export
qrcode_make
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-10-26
Total releases: 7 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("baRcodeR")

Format

Colautti, R., Bao, E., Harris, R., Revilla Sancho, L., & Wu, Y. (2022). baRcodeR: Label Creation for Tracking and Collecting Data from Biological Samples (Version 0.1.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.baRcodeR

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for baRcodeR version 0.1.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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