R Observatory: Metrics for cli version 3.6.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cli

3.6.6

Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces

1,779packages depend

24.4Mdownloads / year

75.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiFirst published 2017-11-0529 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A suite of tools to build attractive command line interfaces ('CLIs'), from semantic elements: headings, lists, alerts, paragraphs, etc. Supports custom themes via a 'CSS'-like language. It also contains a number of lower level 'CLI' elements: rules, boxes, trees, and 'Unicode' symbols with 'ASCII' alternatives. It support ANSI colors and text styles as well.

Install

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

install.packages("cli", 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("r-lib/cli")

Development version from r-lib/cli. 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-cli

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-cli

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-cli

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.09

75.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-11
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-10
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-03
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 22 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-24
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OK2026-06-15
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-13
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 1 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-06
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-24
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-14
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-11
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-10
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-04
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-30
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-28
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-24
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-16
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-31
8 OK · 0 NOTE · 6 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-28
9 OK · 1 NOTE · 3 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-25
9 OK · 2 NOTE · 3 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-22
8 OK · 4 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-21
9 OK · 4 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-17
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 348 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 98%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 69%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

24.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4 · ~66.9K/day · ~2M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.2M30 days

6.5M90 days

24.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on272K r2u174 autocran2M conda_forge6.5K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/cli

719Stars

87Forks

110Open issues

20Open PRs

27Releases

1,736Commits

53Contributors

rcli

1,736 commits · Last activity 2026-06-05 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-07 · 6702026-08-04 · 719

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/cli on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (20)

callr covr crayon digest gluegrDeviceshtmltools htmlwidgets knitrmethodsprocessx ps (>= 1.3.4.9000)rlang rmarkdown rprojroot rstudioapi testthat tibble whoami withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (3)

Salim Brüggemann

Contributor · added in 3.6.2

Kirill Müller

Contributor

Hadley Wickham

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 3.6.2

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 3.6.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 2.3.0 to 1.0.2

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.6.6Latest
2026-04-09 · current release · diff ↗
3.6.5
2025-04-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
3.6.4
2025-02-13 · diff ↗
3.6.3
2024-06-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.6.2
2023-12-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.2
2023-03-23 · diff ↗
3.6.1
2023-03-23 · diff ↗
3.6.0
2023-01-09 · diff ↗
3.5.0
2022-12-20 · diff ↗
3.4.1
2022-09-23 · diff ↗
3.4.0
2022-09-08 · diff ↗
3.3.0
2022-04-25 · diff ↗

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R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
3.2.0
2022-02-14 · diff ↗
3.1.1
2022-01-20 · diff ↗
3.1.0
2021-10-27 · diff ↗
3.0.1
2021-07-17 · diff ↗
3.0.0
2021-06-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.5.0
2021-04-26 · diff ↗
2.4.0
2021-04-05 · diff ↗
2.3.1
2021-02-23 · diff ↗
2.3.0
2021-01-31 · diff ↗
2.2.0
2020-11-20 · diff ↗
2.1.0
2020-10-12 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.0.2
2020-02-28 · diff ↗
2.0.1
2020-01-09 · diff ↗
2.0.0
2019-12-09 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1.0
2019-03-19 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2018-09-25 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.0
2017-11-05
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-05
Total releases: 29 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 625 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cli")

Format

Csárdi, G., Posit Software, PBC, Brüggemann, S., Müller, K., & Wickham, H. (2026). cli: Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces (Version 3.6.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cli

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cli version 3.6.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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