R Observatory: Metrics for debugme version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

debugme

1.2.0Package record

Debug R Packages

4packages dependsuggested by 10

123.7Kdownloads / year

95.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Specify debug messages as special string constants, and control debugging of packages via environment variables.

Changes in 1.2.0

debugme now does not instrumented code multiple times, this could happen if environments were referenced from multiple places (#15).
debugme now correctly instruments functions with attributes, the attributes are kept now. Some packages, e.g. assertthat create such functions.
debugme now supports debug levels. Relatedly, debugme() has a level argument now (#49, @krlmlr).
debugme now correctly instruments functions with NULL body and functions with no arguments.
Nested calls are printed better now, with indentation (#44, @krlmlr).
debugme() now re-reads the DEBUGME environment variable (#45, @krlmlr).

Show all changes in 1.2.0Hide the rest of the changes in 1.2.0

New DEBUGME_SHOW_TIMESTAMP environment variable to hide timestamp output for reproducibility (#49, @krlmlr).
debugme now does not change the random seed (#50).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("debugme", 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("r-lib/debugme")

Development version from r-lib/debugme. 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-debugme

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-debugme

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-debugme

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: 53 s · 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 1.2.0

READMEYes · 311 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 63%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

123.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,309 · ~339/day · ~10.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

6K30 days

22.4K90 days

123.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on641 r2u239 autocran2.4K conda_forge144 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/debugme ↗Organization: r-lib

153Stars

11Forks

23Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

88Commits

6Commit identities

rdebugging-tool

88 commits · Last activity 2025-10-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.2.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 28
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-10 · 1522026-07-07 · 153

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/debugme 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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-04-27

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing debugme adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 39 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: crayon 39 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (2)

crayongrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr mockery R6 testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 10

Show all 14 packagesHide all 14 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

shinytest webdriver cranlike plumbertableau

Suggests, most downloaded first

pillar processx DBItest pkgcache pkgdepends batchtools rhub tsmp epoxy matrixprofiler

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2016)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.2.0

Releases (4)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-01
Total releases: 4 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 14 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("debugme")

Format

Csárdi, G., & Posit Software, PBC. (2024). debugme: Debug R Packages (Version 1.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.debugme

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 debugme version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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