R Observatory: Metrics for blastula version 0.3.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

blastula

0.3.6Package record

Easily Send HTML Email Messages

2packages dependsuggested by 3

119.4Kdownloads / year

59.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard IannoneCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

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/.

Changes in 0.3.6

Fixed erroneous use of sprintf(). (#335, thanks @pabecer!)
Updated full product name of Connect. (#334, thanks @aronatkins!)
Updated several GHA workflows (#336). (#337)

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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 0.3.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 34 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 67%14 run in a plain check · 7 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 64%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 34%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

119.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,147 · ~327/day · ~9.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

7K30 days

30.5K90 days

119.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2K r2u45 autocran3.2K conda_forge139 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/blastula ↗Organization: rstudio

572Stars

82Forks

99Open issues

8Open PRs

10Releases

1,212Commits

19Commit identities

remailmarkdownresponsive-emaileasy-to-usesmtphtml

1,212 commits · Last activity 2025-04-03 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.6.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.3.6 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 36
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-10-01 · 5602026-09-16 · 572

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/blastula 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)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-04-03 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing blastula adds 49 packages (29 with compiled code, 35 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

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

2direct

2indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

pointblank moodef

Suggests, most downloaded first

Microsoft365R geoflow labeleR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Richard Iannone

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Joe Cheng

Author · added in 0.3.0

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.4

Ted Goas

Copyright holder · added in 0.3.2

cerberus-meta.html

Maintainer since 0.1 (2017)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Rich Iannone

no longer listed · 0.1

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.3.3

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
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2025-04-03 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.5
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2024-02-24 · diff ↗
0.3.4
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2023-09-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.3
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2023-01-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.2
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2020-05-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
blastula_template, creds_envvar, delete_all_credential_keys, delete_credential_key
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.1
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2019-11-28 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2019-11-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
blast_first, create_email_creds_file, preview_email, send_email_out

added 25 exports
add_attachment, add_imgur_image, article, attach_connect_email, blastula_email, block_articles, block_social_links, block_spacer, block_text, block_title, blocks, create_smtp_creds_file, create_smtp_creds_key, creds, creds_anonymous, creds_file, creds_key, md, prepare_rsc_example_files, render_connect_email, render_email, smtp_send, social_link, suppress_scheduled_email, view_credential_keys
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.1
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2018-07-19 · diff ↗

Show 4 earlier eventsHide 4 earlier events

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
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2018-03-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
add_readable_time, blast_first, get_html_str, prepare_test_message
0.1
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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

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 v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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