R Observatory: Metrics for datetimeutils version 0.6-6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

datetimeutils

0.6-6Package record

Utilities for Dates and Times

2packages dependsuggested by 1

9Kdownloads / year

64.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Enrico SchumannCRAN page ↗SourceHut ↗Website ↗

Utilities for handling dates and times, such as selecting particular days of the week or month, formatting timestamps as required by RSS feeds, or converting timestamp representations of other software (such as 'MATLAB' and 'Excel') to R. The package is lightweight (no dependencies, pure R implementations) and relies only on R's standard classes to represent dates and times ('Date' and 'POSIXt'); it aims to provide efficient implementations, through vectorisation and the use of R's native numeric representations of timestamps where possible.

Changes in 0.6-6

tz data have been updated (added 'America/Coyhaique')
small fix in vignette

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("datetimeutils", 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-datetimeutils

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-datetimeutils

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-datetimeutils

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 0.6-6

READMEYes · 211 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 0% structured · mentions 0.6-6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 15includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%13 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 85%
Help pages citing references: 80%

Vignettes (1)

Examples for the datetimeutils package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,831 · ~25/day · ~748/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

55330 days

1.4K90 days

9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.1K r2u9 autocran79 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

enricoschumann/datetimeutils ↗Account: enricoschumann

6Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

141Commits

1Commit identities

datetimedatetimeutilsdatetimezonecalendar

141 commits · Last activity 2025-12-15

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 183
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-04-01 · 62026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/enricoschumann/datetimeutils on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

PMwR tsdb

Suggests, most downloaded first

NMOF

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Enrico Schumann

Author, Maintainer since 0.2-7 (2017)

Unicode, Inc.

Data contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.4-0

source of timezone names in 'tznames'

Releases (12)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6-6Latest
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2025-12-15 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.6-5
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2025-04-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
Easter
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.6-4
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2024-04-01 · diff ↗
0.6-3
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2023-11-07 · diff ↗
0.6-2
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2023-09-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.6-1
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2023-04-05 · diff ↗
0.6-0
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2023-04-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
date1904, hour, minute, second
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.5-0
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2021-04-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4-0
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2020-03-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
month.name.de, month.abb.de.din1355.1

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R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3-0
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2019-03-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
end_of_quarter
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2-12
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2018-03-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
month, nth_day, year
0.2-7
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2017-08-28
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-28
Total releases: 12 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Bundled data: 5.7 KB / 1 file
Download size: 173 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("datetimeutils")

Format

Schumann, E., & Unicode, Inc. (2025). datetimeutils: Utilities for Dates and Times (Version 0.6-6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.datetimeutils

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for datetimeutils version 0.6-6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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