R Observatory: Metrics for bracer version 1.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bracer

1.2.2Package record

Brace Expansions

0packages dependsuggested by 1

4Kdownloads / year

87.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Trevor L DavisCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Performs brace expansions on strings. Made popular by Unix shells, brace expansion allows users to concisely generate certain character vectors by taking a single string and (recursively) expanding the comma-separated lists and double-period-separated integer and character sequences enclosed within braces in that string. The double-period-separated numeric integer expansion also supports padding the resulting numbers with zeros.

Changes in 1.2.2

Add a vignette.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bracer", 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("trevorld/bracer")

Development version from trevorld/bracer. 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-bracer

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-bracer

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-bracer

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: 1.1 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 1.2.2

READMEYes · 252 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 67%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to bracer HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,341 · ~11/day · ~331/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29730 days

95690 days

4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on82 r2u18 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

trevorld/bracer ↗Account: trevorld

2Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

29Commits

1Commit identities

29 commits · Last activity 2026-03-29 · Default branch at 1.2.3-1, ahead of CRAN 1.2.2 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-03-16 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/trevorld/bracer on 2026-10-25.

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)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

Lint, format, editor (4)

lintrLint workflowAirEditorConfig

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bracer adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

stringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown testthat V8

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

jab.adverse.reactions

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Trevor L Davis

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.2

Jon Schlinkert

Author · added in 1.2.0

Author of the 'braces' Javascript library

Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2019)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Trevor Davis

no longer listed · 1.0.1 to 1.2.1

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.2Latest
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2023-03-16 · current release · 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
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2021-05-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.1
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2019-09-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
glob, str_expand_braces
1.0.1
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2019-08-08
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-08
Total releases: 5 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 43 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bracer")

Format

Davis, T. L., & Schlinkert, J. (2023). bracer: Brace Expansions (Version 1.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bracer

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 bracer version 1.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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