R Observatory: Metrics for butcher version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

butcher

0.4.0

Model Butcher

8packages dependsuggested by 4

117.9Kdownloads / year

85.4%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Max KuhnCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Provides a set of S3 generics to axe components of fitted model objects and help reduce the size of model objects saved to disk.

Changes in 0.4.0

Max Kuhn is now the maintainer.
Added methods for MASS::polr (@pbulsink, #289).
Added methods for rset, rsplit, tune_results, and workflow_set classes (#292).
Make to work with new versions of xgboost models (#294).
Added butcher methods for tabnet() (@cregouby #226).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("butcher", 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("tidymodels/butcher")

Development version from tidymodels/butcher. 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-butcher

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-butcher

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-butcher

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  butcher/tests/testthat/test-multnet.R (.Label: 1)
  butcher/tests/testthat/test-randomForest.R (.Label: 1)
  butcher/tests/testthat/test-train.R (.Label: 1)
'.Label' should be changed to 'levels'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-08-25
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-07-29
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMEYes · 552 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 54 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%44 run in a plain check (40 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 36%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

117.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,411 · ~323/day · ~9.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

6.5K30 days

18.9K90 days

117.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on6.9K r2u11 autocran3K conda_forge76 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

tidymodels/butcher ↗Organization: tidymodels

139Stars

17Forks

10Open issues

2Open PRs

13Releases

792Commits

18Commit identities

792 commits · Last activity 2025-12-09 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.4.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.4.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-08-09 · 1372026-07-07 · 139

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/tidymodels/butcher on 2026-10-11.

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 2025-12-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-12-09

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

47 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing butcher adds 15 packages (9 with compiled code, 4.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

cli lobstrmethodspurrr rlang tibbleutilsvctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (46)

C50 caret censored ClusterR clustMixType covr dbarts ddalpha dplyr e1071 earth flexsurv fs ipred kernlab kknn klaR knitrMASSmdamgcvmodeldatannetparsnip pkgload pls QSARdata randomForest ranger RANN recipes rmarkdownrpartrsample RSpectra sparklyrsurvivaltabnet testthat torch TH.data tune usethis workflowsets xgboost xrf

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

9indirect

Imports 8

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

bestNormalize probably stacks baguette vetiver netSEM CimpleG mixvlmc

Suggests, most downloaded first

workflows tidyclust bundle kerasnip

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Max Kuhn

Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2025), Author

Joyce Cahoon

Author

Alex Hayes

Author

Julia Silge

Author · added in 0.3.0

Davis Vaughan

Author

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.4.0

Previously maintained by Julia Silge (0.3.0 to 0.3.6) and Davis Vaughan (0.1.4 to 0.2.0).

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.2.0 to 0.3.1

Posit, PBC

no longer listed · 0.3.2 to 0.3.6

Releases (15)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.0Latest
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2025-12-09 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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axe_rsample_data, axe_rsample_indicators
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2025-08-19 · 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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2022-12-14 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2022-06-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.5
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2021-06-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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0.1.4
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2021-03-19 · diff ↗
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2021-03-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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0.1.1
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0.1.0
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2019-08-09
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-09
Total releases: 15 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 223 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("butcher")

Format

Kuhn, M., Posit Software, PBC, Cahoon, J., Hayes, A., Silge, J., & Vaughan, D. (2025). butcher: Model Butcher (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.butcher

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 butcher version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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