R Observatory: Metrics for backports version 1.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

backports

1.5.1

Reimplementations of Functions Introduced Since R-3.0.0

48packages depend

12.2Mdownloads / year

11.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michel LangFirst published 2016-02-2024 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions introduced or changed since R v3.0.0 are re-implemented in this package. The backports are conditionally exported in order to let R resolve the function name to either the implemented backport, or the respective base version, if available. Package developers can make use of new functions or arguments by selectively importing specific backports to support older installations.

Install

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

install.packages("backports", 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/backports")

Development version from r-lib/backports. 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-backports

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-backports

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-backports

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.50

11.9%

Coverage · measured lines

98%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-28
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-09
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

WARNING2026-03-21
9 OK · 4 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-17
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 515 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 3%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

12.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #60 · ~33.5K/day · ~1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1M30 days

3.2M90 days

12.2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on125K r2u99 autocran1.2M conda_forge4.7K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/backports

67Stars

15Forks

7Open issues

7Open PRs

9Releases

166Commits

6Contributors

rcranbackports

166 commits · Last activity 2026-04-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 662026-07-12 · 67

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/backports on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

EditorConfig

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Michel Lang

Maintainer, Author

Authors (3)

Michel Lang

Maintainer, Author

R Core Team

Author · added in 1.1.3

Duncan Murdoch

Author · added in 1.5.0

Package Timeline

24 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.5.1Latest
2026-04-03 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.5.0
2024-05-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.4.1
2021-12-13 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2021-11-23 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2021-10-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.1
2020-12-09 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2020-11-02 · diff ↗
1.1.10
2020-09-16 · diff ↗
1.1.9
2020-08-24 · diff ↗
1.1.8
2020-06-17 · diff ↗

Show 20 earlier events

1.1.7
2020-05-13 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.6
2020-04-05 · diff ↗
1.1.5
2019-10-02 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1.4
2019-04-10 · diff ↗
1.1.3
2018-12-14 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.1.2
2017-12-13 · diff ↗
1.1.1
2017-09-26 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2017-05-22 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0.5
2017-01-18 · diff ↗
1.0.4
2016-10-24 · diff ↗
1.0.3
2016-06-28 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0.2
2016-03-18 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2016-03-10 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2016-02-20
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-20
Total releases: 24 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 29 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Lang, M., R Core Team, & Murdoch, D. (2026). backports: Reimplementations of Functions Introduced Since R-3.0.0 (Version 1.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.backports

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for backports version 1.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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