R Observatory: Metrics for date version 1.2-43

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

date

1.2-43Package record

Functions for Handling Dates

4packages dependsuggested by 2

30.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kurt HornikCRAN page ↗

Functions for handling dates.

Install

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

install.packages("date", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-date

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-date

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-date

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: 2.0 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

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

Websitenot tracked

How these are measured

Downloads

30.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,394 · ~82/day · ~2.5K/mo

date Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.5K30 days

6.8K90 days

30.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on550 r2u88 autocran127 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing date adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

graphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

4indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

RcmdrPlugin.survival RMAWGEN cuRe survivalSL

Suggests, most downloaded first

flexrsurv kerdiest

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Kurt Hornik

Translator, Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2-33

R port

Terry Therneau

Author · added in 1.2-33

S original

R Core Team

Contributor · added in 1.2-38

Kjetil Halvorsen

Translator

R port

Thomas Lumley

Translator

R port

Maintainer since at least 1.2-6

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Kurt Hornik.

no longer listed · 1.2-2 to 1.2-32

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Package metadata

First published: 1999-05-03
Total releases: 41 / 27 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI · relicensed from Unlimited distribution for noncommercial use. in 1.2-18
Download size: 17 KB

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Hornik, K., R Core Team, Halvorsen, K., Lumley, T., & Therneau, T. (2026). date: Functions for Handling Dates (Version 1.2-43) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.date

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for date version 1.2-43 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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