R Observatory: Metrics for checkglobals version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

checkglobals

0.1.4Package record

Static Analysis of R-Code Dependencies

0packages depend

7.4Kdownloads / year

96.6%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joris ChauCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A minimal R-package to approximately detect global and imported functions or variables from R-source code or R-packages by static code analysis.

Changes in 0.1.4

Convert checkglobals object to sarif json
Added sarif-upload example gh-workflow

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("checkglobals", 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("JorisChau/checkglobals")

Development version from JorisChau/checkglobals. 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-checkglobals

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-checkglobals

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-checkglobals

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:
  checkglobals/R/as.R (.Names: 1)
  checkglobals/R/print.R (.Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

Additional issues

donttest

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE11 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-16
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-28

Show 1 earlier changeHide 1 earlier change

OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 21
Examples that run: 100%19 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,256 · ~20/day · ~619/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

42630 days

1.4K90 days

7.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on393 r2u11 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jorischau/checkglobals ↗Account: JorisChau

13Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

68Commits

1Commit identities

package-dependenciesrstatic-code-analysis

68 commits · Last activity 2025-10-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-09-26 · 112026-07-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jorischau/checkglobals on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-10-01

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

MakefileDockerfile

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

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

cli knitr jsonlite

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)

Joris Chau

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.4Latest
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2025-10-01 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
as_sarif_json
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.3
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2025-02-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.0
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2023-06-02
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-02
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 34 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("checkglobals")

Format

Chau, J. (2025). checkglobals: Static Analysis of R-Code Dependencies (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.checkglobals

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for checkglobals version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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