R Observatory: Metrics for crew version 1.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

crew

1.3.3Package record

A Distributed Worker Launcher Framework

3packages dependsuggested by 3

47.6Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by William Michael LandauCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Eli Lilly and Company

In computationally demanding analysis projects, statisticians and data scientists asynchronously deploy long-running tasks to distributed systems, ranging from traditional clusters to cloud services. The 'NNG'-powered 'mirai' R package by Gao (2023) doi:10.5281/zenodo.7912722 is a sleek and sophisticated scheduler that efficiently processes these intense workloads. The 'crew' package extends 'mirai' with a unifying interface for third-party worker launchers. Inspiration also comes from packages. 'future' by Bengtsson (2021) doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048, 'rrq' by FitzJohn and Ashton (2023) https://github.com/mrc-ide/rrq, 'clustermq' by Schubert (2019) doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz284), and 'batchtools' by Lang, Bischel, and Surmann (2017) doi:10.21105/joss.00135.

Changes in 1.3.3

Wrap nanonext::tls_config() in try() to avoid platform-dependent false positives on CRAN.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("crew", 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("wlandau/crew")

Development version from wlandau/crew. 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-crew

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-crew

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-crew

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: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-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 1.3.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 7 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Description cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 34 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%29 run in a plain check (15 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 42%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (7)

How these are measured

Downloads

47.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,831 · ~130/day · ~4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.2K30 days

10.9K90 days

47.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on787 r2u12 autocran2.9K conda_forge27 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

wlandau/crew ↗Account: wlandau

153Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

31Releases

2,013Commits

4Commit identities

r-packagerrstatshigh-performance-computing

2,013 commits · Last activity 2026-09-03 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.3.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.3.3 (checked 2026-10-11) · Discussions: 45 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 84%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-18 · 1472026-07-26 · 153

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/wlandau/crew 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

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-03 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-03, before release 1.3.3 (2026-09-04)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing crew adds 24 packages (16 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (16)

cli collections data.table later mirai nanonext processx promises ps R6 rlangstatstibble tidyselecttoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

autometric knitr markdown rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

crew.cluster crew.aws.batch tarpolyglot

Suggests, most downloaded first

targets fastreg geotargets

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.4 (2023)

Daniel Woodie

Contributor · added in 0.2.1

Eli Lilly and Company

Copyright holder, Funder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Landau

no longer listed · 0.0.4 to 1.3.3

Releases (29)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.3.3Latest
record
2026-09-04 · current release · diff ↗
1.3.2
record
2026-07-30 · diff ↗
1.3.1
record
2026-05-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.3.0
record
2025-09-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
crew_async, crew_class_async, crew_class_queue, crew_eval_async, crew_queue
1.2.1
record
2025-06-09 · diff ↗
1.2.0
record
2025-06-06 · diff ↗
1.1.2
record
2025-05-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.0
record
2025-04-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
crew_class_controller_sequential, crew_controller_sequential
1.0.0
record
2025-02-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
crew_class_queue, crew_queue
0.10.2
record
2024-11-15 · diff ↗
0.10.1
record
2024-11-03 · diff ↗
0.10.0
record
2024-10-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
crew_options_local, crew_options_metrics
0.9.5
record
2024-06-24 · diff ↗
0.9.4
record
2024-06-20 · diff ↗

Show 18 earlier eventsHide 18 earlier events

0.9.3
record
2024-05-22 · diff ↗
0.9.2
record
2024-04-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.9.1
record
2024-03-25 · diff ↗
0.9.0
record
2024-02-08 · diff ↗
0.8.0
record
2024-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
crew_class_monitor_local, crew_monitor_local, crew_terminate_process, crew_terminate_signal
0.7.0
record
2023-12-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
crew_class_relay, crew_class_throttle, crew_relay, crew_throttle
0.6.0
record
2023-10-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
crew_class_schedule, crew_schedule

added 3 exports
crew_async, crew_class_async, crew_eval_async
0.5.0
record
2023-09-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
crew_class_tls, crew_tls
0.4.0
record
2023-07-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
crew_clean
0.3.0
record
2023-06-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
crew_class_router, crew_router

added 4 exports
crew_class_client, crew_class_schedule, crew_client, crew_schedule
0.2.1
record
2023-05-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
crew_deprecate
0.1.1
record
2023-04-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0
record
2023-04-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
crew_class_launcher_callr, crew_controller_callr, crew_launcher_callr, crew_session_start, crew_session_terminate, crew_wait

added 6 exports
crew_assert, crew_class_launcher_local, crew_controller_local, crew_launcher_local, crew_random_name, crew_retry
0.0.5
record
2023-03-23 · diff ↗
0.0.4
record
2023-03-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-03-21
Total releases: 29 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 762 KB

Appears in task views

High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("crew")

Format

Landau, W. M., Eli Lilly and Company, , & Woodie, D. (2026). crew: A Distributed Worker Launcher Framework (Version 1.3.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.crew

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 crew version 1.3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →