R Observatory: Metrics for blastula version 0.3.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

blastula

0.3.6

Easily Send HTML Email Messages

5packages depend

119.4Kdownloads / year

59.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard IannoneFirst published 2017-08-2110 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Compose and send out responsive HTML email messages that render perfectly across a range of email clients and device sizes. Helper functions let the user insert embedded images, web link buttons, and 'ggplot2' plot objects into the message body. Messages can be sent through an 'SMTP' server, through the 'Posit Connect' service, or through the 'Mailgun' API service https://www.mailgun.com/.

Install

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

install.packages("blastula", 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("rstudio/blastula")

Development version from rstudio/blastula. 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-blastula

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-blastula

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-blastula

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.18

59.2%

Coverage · measured lines

97%

Documentation · exports

17

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 34%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

119.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,338 · ~327/day · ~9.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

7.4K30 days

23.4K90 days

119.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.9K r2u28 autocran3.9K conda_forge61 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ rstudio/blastula

575Stars

83Forks

99Open issues

8Open PRs

10Releases

1,212Commits

19Contributors

remailmarkdownresponsive-emaileasy-to-usesmtphtml

1,212 commits · Last activity 2025-04-03 · +1.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-11 · 5542026-08-10 · 575

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/blastula on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (17)

base64enc commonmark curl digest dplyr fs getPass here htmltools httr jsonlite magrittr mime rlang rmarkdown stringr uuid

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

covr ggplot2 glue testthat keyring knitr xml2 openxlsx withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

2indirect

moodef pointblank Microsoft365R geoflow labeleR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Richard Iannone

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Authors (2)

Richard Iannone

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Joe Cheng

Author · added in 0.3.0

Contributors (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Copyright holders (2)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.4

Ted Goas

Copyright holder · added in 0.3.2

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.4

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Rich Iannone

no longer listed · 0.1

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.3.3

Package Timeline

10 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.6Latest
2025-04-03 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.5
2024-02-24 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2023-09-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.3
2023-01-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.2
2020-05-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.1
2019-11-28 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2019-11-22 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.1
2018-07-19 · diff ↗

Show 4 earlier events

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
2018-03-27 · diff ↗
0.1
2017-08-21
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-21
Total releases: 10 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("blastula")

Format

Iannone, R., Posit Software, PBC, Cheng, J., Goas, T., & Ooms, J. (2025). blastula: Easily Send HTML Email Messages (Version 0.3.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.blastula

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for blastula version 0.3.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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