R Observatory: Metrics for bcputility version 0.4.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bcputility

0.4.6Package record

Wrapper for SQL Server bcp Utility

0packages depend

7.8Kdownloads / year

16.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas RohCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions to utilize a command line utility that does bulk inserts and exports from SQL Server databases.

Changes in 0.4.6

Added documentation for bcp versions that do not support trustservercert
Updated documentation for bcpOptions so it is clear how to use command line

arguments that have spaces.

Updated readme to clarify dependencies and provide quick start examples.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bcputility", 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("tomroh/bcputility")

Development version from tomroh/bcputility. 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-bcputility

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-bcputility

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-bcputility

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: 52 s · r-devel-windows-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 0.4.6

READMEYes · 809 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.6Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 17%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,189 · ~21/day · ~648/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48230 days

1.3K90 days

7.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on99 r2u53 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

tomroh/bcputility ↗Account: tomroh

18Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

86Commits

2Commit identities

databasesqlrspatialsqlserver

86 commits · Last activity 2025-09-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-07-31 · 142026-07-07 · 18

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/tomroh/bcputility 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 (2)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

pkgdown site last built 2025-09-06, before release 0.4.6 (2025-09-08)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bcputility adds 10 packages (9 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

data.table sfmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

blob

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)

Thomas Roh

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.6Latest
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2025-09-08 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.3
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2024-05-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.0
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2023-01-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
bcpVersion, checkTableExists, createTable, dropTable, int, makeConnectArgs, mapDataTypes, sqlcmdVersion, varBinary, varChar
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.0
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2022-02-20 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2021-08-06 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2021-07-13
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-07-13
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 210 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("bcputility")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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 bcputility version 0.4.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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