R Observatory: Metrics for config version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

config

0.3.2Package record

Manage Environment Specific Configuration Values

76packages dependsuggested by 10

575.6Kdownloads / year

91.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrie de VriesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Manage configuration values across multiple environments (e.g. development, test, production). Read values using a function that determines the current environment and returns the appropriate value.

Changes in 0.3.2

New features:

Better handling of R expressions in the config.yml. In particular, you can

now refer to other configuration values in the R expression.

Check if package is attached and throw message to use config::ge() instead.
New function with_config() that might be useful for testing and in vignettes.
Allow using a string for .active_config in with_config()

Documentation:

New vignettes, in particular using config with Posit Connect.
Better documentation to not attach the package and use config::get() instead.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("config", 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("rstudio/config")

Development version from rstudio/config. 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-config

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-config

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-config

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: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

575.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #491 · ~1.6K/day · ~48K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49.2K30 days

152.8K90 days

575.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on16.3K r2u14 autocran26.5K conda_forge3.9K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/config ↗Organization: rstudio

265Stars

30Forks

14Open issues

6Open PRs

0Releases

150Commits

9Commit identities

150 commits · Last activity 2025-04-01 · +0.4% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.3.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 73%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 31
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-18 · 2602026-10-15 · 265

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/config 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 2025-04-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-04-01

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing config adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 106 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: yaml 106 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat knitr rmarkdown covr spelling withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

76direct

91indirect

Imports 76

Suggested by 10

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 28 more dependents and 10 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Andrie de Vries

Maintainer since 0.3.1 (2020) · added in 0.3.1

JJ Allaire

Author

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.2

Previously maintained by JJ Allaire (0.1.0 to 0.3).

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio, Inc.

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.3

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.3.1

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
0.3.2Latest
record
2023-08-30 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
with_config
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.1
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2020-12-17 · 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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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3
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2018-03-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2
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2016-08-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
merge
0.1.0
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2016-06-08
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-06-08
Total releases: 5 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 82 KB

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citation("config")

Format

de Vries, A., Posit Software, PBC, & Allaire, J. (2023). config: Manage Environment Specific Configuration Values (Version 0.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.config

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for config version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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