R Observatory: Metrics for buoyant version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

buoyant

0.1.0Package record

Deploy '_server.yml' Compliant Applications to 'DigitalOcean'

0packages depend

1.9Kdownloads / year

4.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Barret SchloerkeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Provides tools to deploy R web server applications that follow the '_server.yml' standard. This standard allows different R server frameworks ('plumber2', 'fiery', etc.) to be deployed using a common interface. The package supports deployment to 'DigitalOcean' and includes validation tools to ensure '_server.yml' files are correctly formatted.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial release of {buoyant}: Deploy '_server.yml' Compliant Applications to 'DigitalOcean'.

New features

do_configure_https() adds HTTPS support via Let's Encrypt.
do_deploy_server() deploys a _server.yml application to a droplet with automatic systemd service creation and nginx configuration. Multiple applications can be deployed to a single server.
do_forward() forwards root path to an application.
do_install_server_deps() installs server dependencies on a droplet.
do_ip() gets the URL to access a deployed application.
do_keyfile() manages SSH key authentication.
do_provision() provisions a DigitalOcean droplet with R and dependencies.
do_remove_forward() removes root path forwarding.
do_remove_server() removes a deployed application from a droplet.
read_server_yml() reads and parses _server.yml configuration files.

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validate_server_yml() validates _server.yml configuration files before deployment.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("buoyant", 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("posit-dev/buoyant")

Development version from posit-dev/buoyant. 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-buoyant

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-buoyant

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
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 0.1.0

READMEYes · 249 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%9 never run
Exported functions with examples: 82%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

1.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,786 · ~5/day · ~159/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19630 days

61590 days

1.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on62 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

posit-dev/buoyant ↗Organization: posit-dev

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

29Commits

1Commit identities

29 commits · Last activity 2026-01-27 · Default branch at 0.1.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 6

Releases over time

2026-01-20 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/posit-dev/buoyant on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-27

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-27

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-01-07
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude
GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-01-07
Seen in the repository: .github/copilot-instructions.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing buoyant adds 15 packages (9 with compiled code, 6.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: renv 1.5 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

analogsea jsonlite renv ssh withr yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr quarto spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Barret Schloerke

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2026-01-19 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-19
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 48 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("buoyant")

Format

Schloerke, B., & Posit Software, PBC. (2026). buoyant: Deploy '_server.yml' Compliant Applications to 'DigitalOcean' (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.buoyant

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for buoyant version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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