cheapr

1.5.2

Simple Functions to Save Time and Memory

3packages depend

11.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Nick ChristofidesFirst published 2024-03-0525 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fast and memory-efficient (or 'cheap') tools to facilitate efficient programming, saving time and memory. It aims to provide 'cheaper' alternatives to common base R functions, as well as some additional functions.

Install

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

install.packages("cheapr")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

pak::pak("NicChr/cheapr")

Development version from NicChr/cheapr. Requires the pak package.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-cheapr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-cheapr

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

sudo zypper install R-cheapr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.66

not tracked

Coverage

99%

Documentation · exports

None

Vignettes

Yes

README

Dependencies · direct

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OK2026-04-09
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ERROR2026-04-08
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NOTE2026-03-28
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Downloads

11.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,918 · ~32/day · ~964/mo

96830 days

2.7K90 days

11.6K1 year

Also on534 r2u27 autocran

Source & community

GitHub ↗

Repository stars, issues, and contributor activity are not tracked yet.

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (1)

collapse

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (3)

bench data.table testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Reverse dependencies

3direct

–indirect (not tracked)

fastplyr timeplyr fastplyr bsitar

Code

24,059Lines of code

173Exported functions

Code & tests

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Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

754 119 exported

Complexity

1.8 avg / 24 max

Call network

754 nodes / 727 edges

Test coverage has not been measured for this package yet; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Nick Christofides iD

Author, Maintainer

Release timeline

25 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics; R releases are shown for context.

1.5.2Latest
2026-06-30 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.5.1
2026-04-04 · diff ↗
1.5.0
2026-01-08 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2025-11-28 · diff ↗
1.3.2
2025-07-23 · diff ↗
1.3.1
2025-06-03 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2025-05-27 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2025-05-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.0
2025-03-13 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2025-02-12 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2025-01-22 · diff ↗
0.9.92
2024-12-10 · diff ↗
0.9.91
2024-11-11 · diff ↗
0.9.9
2024-10-14 · diff ↗

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0.9.8
2024-10-02 · diff ↗
0.9.3
2024-07-29 · diff ↗
0.9.2
2024-05-11 · diff ↗
0.9.1
2024-05-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.9.0
2024-04-22 · diff ↗
0.8.0
2024-04-12 · diff ↗
0.5.0
2024-04-05 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2024-03-25 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2024-03-18 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2024-03-06 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2024-03-05

Package metadata

First published: 2024-03-05
Total releases: 25 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet