R Observatory: Metrics for bspm version 0.5.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bspm

0.5.8Package record

Bridge to System Package Manager

0packages depend

79.8Kdownloads / year

53.2%test coverage

10/10flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Iñaki UcarCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Enables binary package installations on Linux distributions. Provides functions to manage packages via the distribution's package manager. Also provides transparent integration with R's install.packages() and a fallback mechanism. When installed as a system package, interacts with the system's package manager without requiring administrative privileges via an integrated D-Bus service; otherwise, uses sudo. Currently, the following backends are supported: DNF, APT, ALPM.

Changes in 0.5.8

Fix "invalid escape sequence" SyntaxWarning (@pekkarr in #84).
Catch and show early errors (e.g. no backend found) in root mode.
Workaround for duplicated row.names in shadowed_packages.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bspm", 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("cran4linux/bspm")

Development version from cran4linux/bspm. 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-bspm

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

# 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-bspm

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

10OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK10 OK2026-08-05
NOTE9 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK11 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.8

READMEYes · 895 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.8Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 17%

How these are measured

Downloads

79.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,282 · ~219/day · ~6.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

6.9K30 days

23.6K90 days

79.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on29.7K r2u8 autocran142 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

cran4linux/bspm ↗Organization: cran4linux

89Stars

3Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

25Releases

133Commits

3Commit identities

automationrpackageslinux

133 commits · Last activity 2026-02-27 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.8.1, ahead of CRAN 0.5.8 (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

2025-07-10 · 842026-08-23 · 89

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/cran4linux/bspm on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (1)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-27

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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 bspm adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Iñaki Ucar

Releases (20)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2023-02-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
moveto_sys, shadowed_packages
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added 1 export
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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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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-08-01
Total releases: 20 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 28 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bspm")

Format

Ucar, I. (2026). bspm: Bridge to System Package Manager (Version 0.5.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bspm

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 bspm version 0.5.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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