R Observatory: Metrics for bannerCommenter version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bannerCommenter

1.0.0Package record

Make Banner Comments with a Consistent Format

1packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bill VenablesCRAN page ↗

A convenience package for use while drafting code. It facilitates making stand-out comment lines decorated with bands of characters. The input text strings are converted into R comment lines, suitably formatted. These are then displayed in a console window and, if possible, automatically transferred to a clipboard ready for pasting into an R script. Designed to save time when drafting R scripts that will need to be navigated and maintained by other programmers.

Install

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

install.packages("bannerCommenter", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-bannercommenter

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-bannerCommenter

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-bannerCommenter

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  bannerCommenter/inst/doc/Banded_comment_maker.R (.Dim: 1, .Dimnames: 1)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Dimnames' should be changed to 'dimnames'.

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Bill Venables <Bill.Venables@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Bill",
                    family = "Venables",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "Bill.Venables@gmail.com")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Making Banner Comments for R Scripts

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,343 · ~14/day · ~414/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

46030 days

1.2K90 days

5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on93 r2u25 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown dplyrdatasets

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ARTofR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Bill Venables

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

Releases (3)

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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 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0Latest
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2021-03-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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chunk_options, yaml_header
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.0
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2016-12-05
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-05
Total releases: 3 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 180 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bannerCommenter")

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 bannerCommenter version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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