R Observatory: Metrics for bigbang version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bigbang

0.5.1Package record

Build 'Tidyverse'-Style Meta-Packages from Local Package Files

0packages depend

890downloads / year

92.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sebastián LucasCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Turns a curated set of package archives (.tar.gz, .zip) into one meta-package in the style of the 'tidyverse', so that a group of interdependent packages can be distributed and installed as a single unit. The generated meta-package records the exact archive versions it was built from and installs its components in dependency order, so that whoever receives it does not have to work out which package to install first. The component archives are copied into the generated meta-package, so it is the only artifact that has to be distributed and no directory has to be agreed on between machines. Resolves dependencies by building a graph with topological ordering and cycle detection, classifies them as local or external, and detects implicit dependencies by scanning source code. Installation needs no repository access unless a component depends on a package that only exists in one, which suits teams working behind institutional firewalls. Generates the complete meta-package scaffold, including installation helpers, vignettes and documentation.

Changes in 0.5.1

Bug fixes

Each component archive is listed and extracted once per generation, diagnostic, or local installation call, and re-export source evidence asks R for the text of the parse tokens it needs only. Generating a re-export meta-package for 11 components is about four times faster, with the same plans and diagnostics.
Attaching the components of a re-export meta-package no longer evaluates its re-export bindings, and <meta>_conflicts() and <meta>_deps() do not evaluate them either. R's own load test at the end of R CMD INSTALL can still evaluate them.
Re-export mode no longer prints R's "The following objects are masked..." messages for deliberately re-exported symbols; use <meta>_conflicts() to inspect those intentional conflicts.

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Documentation

install_local_pkg() has an example that installs the bundled example archive into a temporary library.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bigbang", 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("sebollin/bigbang")

Development version from sebollin/bigbang. 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-bigbang

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-bigbang

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-bigbang

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: 4.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK6 OK2026-08-09

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.1

READMEYes · 3,696 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 75%3 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

890

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,389 · ~2/day · ~74/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41130 days

89090 days

8901 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on28 r2u28 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

sebollin/bigbang ↗Account: sebollin

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

130Commits

1Commit identities

crandependency-graphi18nmetapackageoffline-firstpackage-managementrr-package

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 130 commits · Last activity 2026-10-12 · +50% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.5.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-08-09 · 12026-10-03 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/sebollin/bigbang 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 (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-06

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bigbang adds 3 packages (2 with compiled code, 168 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: glue 127 KB, whisker 28 KB, brio 13 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (5)

brio gluetoolsutilswhisker

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

devtools knitr pkgbuild pkgload rmarkdown roxygen2 testthat withr

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)

Sebastián Lucas

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.4.0

Richard Detomasi

Contributor

Suggested the initial idea of a metapackage builder

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Sebastian Lucas

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (4)

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0.5.1Latest
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2026-10-06 · current release · diff ↗
0.5.0
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2026-10-02 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2026-08-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
crear_meta_paquete_local, diagnosticar_dependencias, install_loc_pkg_w_dep
0.1.0
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2026-08-08
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-08
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 389 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bigbang")

Format

Lucas, S., & Detomasi, R. (2026). bigbang: Build 'Tidyverse'-Style Meta-Packages from Local Package Files (Version 0.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bigbang

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

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 bigbang version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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