R Observatory: Metrics for clipr version 0.8.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

clipr

0.8.1

Read and Write from the System Clipboard

46packages dependsuggested by 46

8.2Mdownloads / year

8.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew LincolnCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Simple utility functions to read from and write to the Windows, OS X, and X11 clipboards.

Changes in 0.8.1

Fix read_clip_tbl() error with trailing newline and quote characters — append a trailing newline to clipboard content before passing to read.table(), and set default quote="" to prevent single quotes in headers from being interpreted as quote delimiters (#77)
Check for wl-copy non-destructively on Wayland systems, fixing clipboard detection issues (#75, @danielvartan)
Skip tests if clipr is not available (e.g. on CRAN build servers without a display)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("clipr", 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("mdlincoln/clipr")

Development version from mdlincoln/clipr. 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-clipr

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-clipr

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-clipr

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: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-18
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-12
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-22
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-20
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.1

READMEYes · 225 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.8.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 79%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Developing with clipr HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

8.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #106 · ~22.5K/day · ~684.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

636K30 days

1.8M90 days

8.2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on182.6K r2u138 autocran1.3M conda_forge20.3K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mdlincoln/clipr ↗Account: mdlincoln

154Stars

26Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

16Releases

430Commits

12Commit identities

clipboardrstats

430 commits · Last activity 2026-05-25 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.8.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.8.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 76%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-08-23 · 1512026-08-04 · 154

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mdlincoln/clipr 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-25

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr knitr rmarkdown rstudioapi testthat (>= 2.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

46direct

1,806indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 45

Suggested by 46

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

rstudioapi httr2

and 44 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Matthew Lincoln

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2015)

Jennifer Bryan

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Louis Maddox

Contributor

Steve Simpson

Contributor · added in 0.2.1

Releases (16)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.8.1Latest
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2026-05-25 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.8.0
record
2022-02-22 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.7.1
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2020-10-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.7.0
record
2019-07-23 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.6.0
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2019-04-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
write_last_clip
0.5.0
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2019-01-11 · diff ↗
0.4.1
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2018-06-23 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.4.0
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2017-11-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
dr_clipr
0.3.3
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2017-06-20 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.2
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2017-01-09 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2016-12-02 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2016-11-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
clipr_available
0.2.1
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2016-06-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
read_clip_tbl
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2.0
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2015-10-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
clear_clip
0.1.1
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2015-09-04 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2015-09-02
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-09-02
Total releases: 16 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 20 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("clipr")

Format

Lincoln, M., Bryan, J., Maddox, L., & Simpson, S. (2026). clipr: Read and Write from the System Clipboard (Version 0.8.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.clipr

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for clipr version 0.8.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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