R Observatory: Metrics for datapasta version 3.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

datapasta

3.1.0Package record

R Tools for Data Copy-Pasta

0packages dependsuggested by 2

21.4Kdownloads / year

54.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Miles McBainCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

RStudio addins and R functions that make copy-pasting vectors and tables to text painless.

Changes in 3.1.0

Exported _format functions
Adds dt_paste function for pasting as data.table (Thanks @jonocarroll, #72, closes #70)
Row names are kept in data.frames and data.tables (Thanks @sowla)
Column names that are invalid are now handled with backticks (Thanks @sharlagelfand)
Fixes issue with commas inside character vectors getting wrapped on
data.frame (and data.table) print is much prettier and robust with all args and cols aligned on '='
zero row tibbles are supported with a fall-back to a tibble::tibble() call
all _construct functions now return input visibly
Fallback behaviour added to allow usage with remote R sessions like RStudio Server/Cloud, or ssh command line. See 'datapasta in the cloud' vignette. (Thanks @gadenbuie, @jonthegeek)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("datapasta", 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("milesmcbain/datapasta")

Development version from milesmcbain/datapasta. 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-datapasta

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-datapasta

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-datapasta

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: 1.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.1.0

READMEYes · 857 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.1.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 31
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Datapasta in the cloud HTML
How to Datapasta HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

21.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,754 · ~59/day · ~1.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7K30 days

5.3K90 days

21.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on204 r2u13 autocran1.1K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

milesmcbain/datapasta ↗Account: MilesMcBain

924Stars

63Forks

29Open issues

5Open PRs

5Releases

311Commits

12Commit identities

rcopypasteexceladdinclipboardtibble

311 commits · Last activity 2025-12-07 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.2.2, ahead of CRAN 3.1.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 53
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-17 · 9002026-07-07 · 924

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/milesmcbain/datapasta on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-12-07

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing datapasta adds 25 packages (13 with compiled code, 6.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (4)

readr clipr rstudioapimethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

tibble testthat knitr rmarkdownutilscovr data.table

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

lactater whippr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Miles McBain

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2016)

Garrick Aden-Buie

Author · added in 3.1.0

Jonathan Carroll

Author · added in 1.1.0

Sharla Gelfand

Author · added in 3.1.0

Suthira Owlarn

Author · added in 3.1.0

Andrew Collier

Contributor · added in 3.1.0

Mark Dulhunty

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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
3.1.0Latest
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2020-01-17 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
df_construct

added 6 exports
df_format, dfdt_construct, dt_format, dt_paste, tribble_format, vector_format
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
3.0.0
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2018-01-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
zzz_rs_dfiddle, zzz_rs_toggle_quotes
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
2.0.0
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2017-03-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 13 exports
clipboard_context, console_context, custom_context, df_construct, dmdclip, dp_set_decimal_mark, dp_set_max_rows, dpasta, markdown_context, rstudio_context, tribble_construct, vector_construct, vector_construct_vertical
1.1.0
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2017-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
df_paste
1.0.0
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2016-11-29
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-29
Total releases: 5 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 612 KB

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Format

McBain, M., Aden-Buie, G., Carroll, J., Collier, A., Dulhunty, M., Gelfand, S., & Owlarn, S. (2020). datapasta: R Tools for Data Copy-Pasta (Version 3.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.datapasta

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for datapasta version 3.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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