R Observatory: Metrics for designer version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

designer

0.3.0Package record

'Shiny' UI Prototype Builder

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

80.2%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ashley BaldryCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A 'shiny' application that enables the user to create a prototype UI, being able to drag and drop UI components before being able to save or download the equivalent R code.

Changes in 0.3.0

Features

Templates are enabled to save, update and share
R code can be saved as a module (#42)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("designer", 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("ashbaldry/designer")

Development version from ashbaldry/designer. 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-designer

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-designer

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-designer

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘mod_template_srv.R’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'mod_template_srv.R'

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMEYes · 428 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check (under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Prototyping Your UI with `designer` HTML
templates HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,185 · ~8/day · ~247/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28530 days

83890 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on76 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ashbaldry/designer ↗Account: ashbaldry

154Stars

9Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

507Commits

2Commit identities

rshiny

507 commits · Last activity 2026-01-08 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.1, ahead of CRAN 0.3.0 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-17 · 1492026-08-20 · 154

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ashbaldry/designer on 2026-10-22.

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 (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-08 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-08

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dockerfile

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing designer adds 85 packages (41 with compiled code, 77 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (12)

bs4Dash bslib cicerone config fontawesome golem htmltools jsonlite rappdirs shinipsum shiny shinyscreenshot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

chromote knitr lintr rmarkdown shinytest2 testthat (>= 3.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Ashley Baldry

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022), Author

Sam Parmar

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Releases (3)

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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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2023-08-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-11-20 · diff ↗
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2022-05-17
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-05-17
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 353 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("designer")

Format

Baldry, A., & Parmar, S. (2023). designer: 'Shiny' UI Prototype Builder (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.designer

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 designer version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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