R Observatory: Metrics for daff version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

daff

1.1.1Package record

Diff, Patch and Merge for Data.frames

0packages depend

37.1Kdownloads / year

88.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Edwin de JongeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Diff, patch and merge for data frames. Document changes in data sets and use them to apply patches. Changes to data can be made visible by using render_diff(). The 'V8' package is used to wrap the 'daff.js' 'JavaScript' library which is included in the package.

Changes in 1.1.1

update for coming update of V8, now includes underscore.js. Thanks to @jeroenooms

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("daff", 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("edwindj/daff")

Development version from edwindj/daff. 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-daff

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-daff

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-daff

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: 1.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.1

READMEYes · 176 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 71%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

37.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,864 · ~102/day · ~3.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.7K30 days

10.5K90 days

37.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on87 r2u9 autocran1.2K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

edwindj/daff ↗Account: edwindj

160Stars

19Forks

10Open issues

3Open PRs

0Releases

226Commits

5Commit identities

daffdatadiffr

226 commits · Last activity 2024-02-15 · +0.6% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-08-23 · 1562026-09-25 · 160

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/edwindj/daff on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowAppVeyor

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-02-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing daff adds 4 packages (4 with compiled code, 4.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

V8 jsonliteutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

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)

Edwin de Jonge

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2015)

R wrapper

Paul Fitzpatrick

Author

JavaScript original, http://paulfitz.github.io/daff/

Gregory R. Warnes

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Gregory R.

no longer listed · 0.3.0 to 1.1.1

Releases (9)

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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
1.1.1Latest
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2024-02-15 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-10-08
1.0.1
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2023-10-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-11-20
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-05-15
0.3.5
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2019-05-15 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-05-13
not updated for R 3.6.0 despite reminders Apparently random differences from reference results
0.3.4
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2019-04-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.0
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2017-05-10 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2.0
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2016-04-29 · diff ↗
0.1.4
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2015-04-18 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.1.2
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2015-02-24 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2015-02-23
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-02-23
Total releases: 9 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("daff")

Format

de Jonge, E., Fitzpatrick, P., & Warnes, G. R. (2024). daff: Diff, Patch and Merge for Data.frames (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.daff

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for daff version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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