R Observatory: Metrics for basetable version 1.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

basetable

1.4.2Package record

Fast and Memory-Efficient Base R Table Manipulation

0packages depend

672downloads / year

84.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Imad El BadisyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A tabular data manipulation, exploration and validation toolkit with a base R-style interface (subset, transform, aggregate, merge, split) and no external computation dependency. Grouping, joins, ordering, filtering, reshaping and delimited-file reading run in a bundled 'C++' engine that uses multiple threads for the heavier operations. Grouped reducers accumulate in compiled code without materialising intermediate columns, so grouped aggregation and counting allocate close to nothing. Results are returned as an ordinary data frame with a light 'basetable' class.

Changes in 1.4.2

Fixes

split() on a non-data-frame data argument (the classic split(vector, factor) base R idiom) now dispatches to base::split() instead of erroring. Previously split() unconditionally treated its first argument as a table, so attaching basetable broke split(vector, factor) anywhere in a session, including inside R Markdown/Quarto's own rendering pipeline, which calls split() unqualified internally.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("basetable", 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("ielbadisy/basetable")

Development version from ielbadisy/basetable. 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-basetable

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-basetable

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-basetable

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: 5.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK6 OK2026-09-15
ERROR3 OK, 2 ERROR2026-09-13

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.2

READMEYes · 1,333 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 240includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 6%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

basetable: A Complete Function Reference
Benchmarks HTML
Data manipulation HTML
Exploration HTML
Getting started HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

672

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,429 · ~2/day · ~56/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

51230 days

67290 days

6721 year

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Also on40 r2u53 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ielbadisy/basetable ↗Account: ielbadisy

4Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

389Commits

1Commit identities

base-rcppcrandata-framedata-manipulationdata-tabledata-wranglingdataframe

389 commits · Last activity 2026-09-23 · +300% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 99%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-09-13 · 02026-09-25 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ielbadisy/basetable on 2026-10-18.

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 (3)

Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (3)

parallelstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

bench data.table dplyr ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown scales 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 (1)

Imad El Badisy

Author, Maintainer since 1.3.2 (2026)

Releases (3)

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1.4.2Latest
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2026-09-18 · current release · diff ↗
1.4.1
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2026-09-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
as_basetable, compact, is_basetable
1.3.2
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2026-09-12
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-12
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 971 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("basetable")

Format

El Badisy, I. (2026). basetable: Fast and Memory-Efficient Base R Table Manipulation (Version 1.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.basetable

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for basetable version 1.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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