R Observatory: Metrics for cronR version 0.6.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cronR

0.6.5Package record

Schedule R Scripts and Processes with the 'cron' Job Scheduler

0packages dependsuggested by 1

8.4Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

10/10flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jan WijffelsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create, edit, and remove 'cron' jobs on your unix-alike system. The package provides a set of easy-to-use wrappers to 'crontab'. It also provides an RStudio add-in to easily launch and schedule your scripts.

Install

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

install.packages("cronR", 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("bnosac/cronR")

Development version from bnosac/cronR. 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-cronr

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-cronR

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-cronR

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

10OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 44 s · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK10 OK2026-08-05
NOTE9 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK11 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.5

READMEYes · 505 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 75%6 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 22%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

8.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,138 · ~23/day · ~696/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39630 days

1.2K90 days

8.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on114 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bnosac/cronr ↗Organization: bnosacFork of kevinushey/cronR

290Stars

39Forks

6Open issues

1Open PRs

10Releases

101Commits

9Commit identities

rcronschedulerrstudio

101 commits · Last activity 2023-12-12 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 70%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-03-18 · 2882026-09-25 · 290

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bnosac/cronr on 2026-10-22.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cronR adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 231 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: digest 231 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

digest

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

miniUI shiny shinyFiles tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

LitFetchR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Jan Wijffels

BNOSAC

Copyright holder

Kevin Ushey

Copyright holder

Releases (9)

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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.6.5Latest
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2023-01-09 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.6.2
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2022-02-17 · diff ↗
0.6.1
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2022-01-28 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-09-20
0.6.0
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2021-09-20 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-09-02
policy violation Checking removes the user's crontab
0.5.1
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2021-09-01 · diff ↗
0.5.0
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2021-08-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.2
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2020-09-23 · 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
0.4.0
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2018-03-09 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.0
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2017-03-03
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-03-03
Total releases: 9 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 56 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cronR")

Format

Wijffels, J., BNOSAC, & Ushey, K. (2023). cronR: Schedule R Scripts and Processes with the 'cron' Job Scheduler (Version 0.6.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cronR

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 cronR version 0.6.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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