R Observatory: Metrics for cliapp version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cliapp

0.1.2Package record

Create Rich Command Line Applications

0packages depend

12Kdownloads / year

85.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Create rich command line applications, with colors, headings, lists, alerts, progress bars, etc. It uses CSS for custom themes. This package is now superseded by the 'cli' package. Please use 'cli' instead in new projects.

Changes in 0.1.2

No changes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("cliapp", 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/cliapp")

Development version from r-lib/cliapp. 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-cliapp

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-cliapp

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-cliapp

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

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 0.1.2

READMEYes · 188 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNo

Help pages: 20 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 81%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 63%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

12K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,018 · ~33/day · ~999/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

72530 days

2.3K90 days

12K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on124 r2u16 autocran76.5K conda_forge16 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/cliapp ↗Organization: r-libArchived

61Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

91Commits

2Commit identities

91 commits · Last activity 2024-04-25 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.2 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-09-06 · 602026-07-07 · 61

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/cliapp on 2026-10-22.

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 (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cliapp adds 16 packages (6 with compiled code, 4.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, fansi 670 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (11)

cli crayon fansi glue prettycode progress (>= 1.2.0)R6 selectrutilswithr xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

callr covr rstudioapi 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)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.1.2

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-10-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-12-16
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-12-16
Total releases: 3 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 109 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cliapp")

Format

Csárdi, G., & Posit Software, PBC. (2024). cliapp: Create Rich Command Line Applications (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cliapp

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 cliapp version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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