R Observatory: Metrics for dadjokeapi version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dadjokeapi

1.0.2Package record

Return a Random Dad Joke

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

98.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeffrey HollisterCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

What is funnier than a dad joke? A dad joke in R! This package utilizes the API for https://icanhazdadjoke.com and returns dad jokes from several API endpoints.

Install

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

install.packages("dadjokeapi", 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("jhollist/dadjokeapi")

Development version from jhollist/dadjokeapi. 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-dadjokeapi

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-dadjokeapi

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-dadjokeapi

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-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMEYes · 70 wordsVignettesNoNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,396 · ~10/day · ~294/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35030 days

81290 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on76 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jhollist/dadjokeapi ↗Account: jhollist

19Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

37Commits

2Commit identities

37 commits · Last activity 2021-03-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 360
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2021-11-05 · 192026-07-07 · 19

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jhollist/dadjokeapi 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

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dadjokeapi adds 25 packages (17 with compiled code, 9.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, beepr 1.0 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

httr beepr curl dplyr png

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat mockery

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Jeffrey Hollister

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2021)

Antoine Bichat

Contributor

Brett Langdon

Copyright holder

Releases (1)

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
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.2Latest
record
2021-03-01 · current release
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-01
Total releases: 1 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 151 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dadjokeapi")

Format

Hollister, J., Antoine Bichat, & Brett Langdon. (2021). dadjokeapi: Return a Random Dad Joke (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dadjokeapi

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 dadjokeapi version 1.0.2 [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.

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