R Observatory: Metrics for beakr version 0.4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

beakr

0.4.4Package record

A Minimalist Web Framework for R

0packages depend

7.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jonathan CallahanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A minimalist web framework for developing application programming interfaces in R that provides a flexible framework for handling common HTTP-requests, errors, logging, and an ability to integrate any R code as server middle-ware.

Changes in 0.4.4

Documentation tweaks for CRAN.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("beakr", 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("MazamaScience/beakr")

Development version from MazamaScience/beakr. 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-beakr

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-beakr

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-beakr

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-oldrel-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 0.4.4

READMEYes · 744 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.4Citation fileNo

Help pages: 27 (6 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 31%4 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 59%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,483 · ~22/day · ~661/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48130 days

1.9K90 days

7.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on146 r2u24 autocran92 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mazamascience/beakr ↗Organization: MazamaScience

95Stars

3Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

255Commits

5Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 255 commits · Last activity 2026-07-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-07 · 952026-07-07 · 95

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mazamascience/beakr on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-09

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

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing beakr adds 20 packages (15 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (8)

R6 base64enc httpuv jsonlite magrittr mime stringr webutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr testthat rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Jonathan Callahan

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.1 (2020)

Hans Martin

Author

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.4Latest
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2025-09-05 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.3
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2021-04-06 · diff ↗
0.4.2
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2021-03-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
cors
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.1
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2020-02-10
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-02-10
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 30 KB

Appears in task views

Web Technologies and Services

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("beakr")

Format

Callahan, J., & Martin, H. (2025). beakr: A Minimalist Web Framework for R (Version 0.4.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.beakr

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

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 beakr version 0.4.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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