R Observatory: Metrics for boxr version 0.3.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

boxr

0.3.7Package record

Interface for the 'Box.com API'

0packages depend

7Kdownloads / year

3.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ian LyttleCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An R interface for the remote file hosting service 'Box' (https://www.box.com/). In addition to uploading and downloading files, this package includes functions which mirror base R operations for local files, (e.g. box_load(), box_save(), box_read(), box_setwd(), etc.), as well as 'git' style functions for entire directories (e.g. box_fetch(), box_push()).

Changes in 0.3.7

Fixes

fix bug in box_save(), setting default environment for evaluating dots (#255)

Internal

update with internal helper for Box ids. (#90)
update minimum version of rio package to reflect newer treatment of JSON files. (#261)
remove unused internal function, removing dependency on httpuv package. (#259)
update superseded function-calls from gargle, used in testing. (#251)
default branch switched from master to main. (#252)
refactor to use withr functions to handle temp files. (#183)
activate tests for box_save(), box_load() (#255)
update documentation to reflect updates to rio package. (#242, @chainsawriot)
update maintainer's email address. (#248)

Show all changes in 0.3.7Hide the rest of the changes in 0.3.7

update to use inherits() (vs. string-comparison) to determine class-membership. (#246)
harmonizes the default location for tokens. Now, ~ resolves to the home directory for all platforms. A patch is applied offering to move tokens from "old" locations. (#219 w/@danielruss)
adds and updates GitHub Actions for testing and coverage. (#206, #247, #256)
update documentation: README, URLs, external-package links, pkgdown, add alt text to figures. (#275, #276, #279, #282)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("boxr", 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("r-box/boxr")

Development version from r-box/boxr. 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-boxr

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-boxr

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-boxr

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.7

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.7Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 35 (10 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 7%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 6%

Vignettes (5)

boxr: A high-level R interface for the box.com API HTML
Box Apps HTML
Box Interactive-Apps HTML
Box Service-Apps HTML
Design Philosophy HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,892 · ~19/day · ~580/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

61530 days

1.7K90 days

7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on107 r2u20 autocran279 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-box/boxr ↗Organization: r-box

63Stars

26Forks

34Open issues

5Open PRs

14Releases

578Commits

13Commit identities

578 commits · Last activity 2025-04-13 · Default branch at 0.3.7.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.3.7 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 87%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 16
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 7

Stars over time

2024-02-23 · 632026-07-07 · 63

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-box/boxr on 2026-10-18.

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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-04-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-04-13

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing boxr adds 51 packages (28 with compiled code, 34 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, readxl 2.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (20)

assertthat dplyr digest fs glue httr magrittr mime purrr rio rlangstatsstringrutilstibble lifecycle jsonlite jose cli withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

clipr conflicted gargle here knitr openssl png rmarkdown sodium testthat usethis covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Ian Lyttle

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.5 (2019) · added in 0.3.4

Nathan Day

Author · added in 0.3.6

Brendan Rocks

Author

Alex Brodersen

Contributor · added in 0.3.6

Vincent Fulco

Contributor · added in 0.3.5

Alec Wong

Contributor · added in 0.3.5

Previously maintained by Brendan Rocks (0.2.5 to 0.3.4).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Nate Day

no longer listed · 0.3.5

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.7Latest
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2025-04-13 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.6
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2021-01-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
%>%, box_browse, box_collab_create, box_collab_delete, box_collab_get, box_comment_create, box_comment_get, box_read_rds, box_save_rds, box_version_api, box_version_history, box_version_number
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.5
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2019-11-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
box_auth_service, box_dir_invite
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.4
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2017-01-12 · diff ↗
0.3.3
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2016-08-16 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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0.3.2
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2016-01-31 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2016-01-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
box_add_description, box_fresh_auth, box_read_excel, box_search, box_search_files, box_search_folders, box_search_trash, box_write
0.2.9
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2015-08-20 · diff ↗
0.2.6
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2015-05-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.2.5
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2015-04-15
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-04-15
Total releases: 10 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.4 MB

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citation("boxr")

Format

Lyttle, I., Brodersen, A., Day, N., Fulco, V., Rocks, B., & Wong, A. (2025). boxr: Interface for the 'Box.com API' (Version 0.3.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.boxr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for boxr version 0.3.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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