R Observatory: Metrics for brew version 1.0-10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

brew

1.0-10Package record

Templating Framework for Report Generation

16packages dependsuggested by 2

2.4Mdownloads / year

75.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Greg HuntCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements a templating framework for mixing text and R code for report generation. brew template syntax is similar to PHP, Ruby's erb module, Java Server Pages, and Python's psp module.

Install

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

install.packages("brew", 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("gregfrog/brew")

Development version from gregfrog/brew. 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-brew

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-brew

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-brew

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: 55 s · r-devel-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 1.0-10

READMEYes · 33 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

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

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #242 · ~6.7K/day · ~203.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

169.3K30 days

537.6K90 days

2.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on114.9K r2u125 autocran254.5K conda_forge2.8K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gregfrog/brew ↗Account: gregfrog

3Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

12Commits

2Commit identities

12 commits · Last activity 2023-12-16

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 442
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-03-07 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/gregfrog/brew on 2026-10-21.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing brew adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

177indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 15

Suggested by 2

Show all 18 packagesHide all 18 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

roxygen2 leafpop batchtools BatchJobs Rook opencpu sos link2GI pkgndep RWsearch WebAnalytics forestly boxly metalite.sl rdnb diezeit

Suggests, most downloaded first

remotes Certara.NLME8

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Greg Hunt

Jeffrey Horner

Author, Copyright holder

Previously maintained by Jeffrey Horner (0.1-1 to 1.0-6).

Releases (10)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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2022-02-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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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
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03
1.0-1
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2007-08-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
setBufLen, brewCache, brewCacheOn, brewCacheOff
0.1-1
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2007-06-16
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R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2007-06-16
Total releases: 10 / 19 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 69 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("brew")

Format

Hunt, G., & Horner, J. (2023). brew: Templating Framework for Report Generation (Version 1.0-10) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.brew

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 brew version 1.0-10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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