R Observatory: Metrics for detector version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

detector

0.1.0Package record

Detect Data Containing Personally Identifiable Information

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul HendricksCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Allows users to quickly and easily detect data containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) through convenience functions.

Install

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

install.packages("detector", 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("paulhendricks/detector")

Development version from paulhendricks/detector. 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-detector

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-detector

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-detector

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: 48 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 318 wordsVignettesNoNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNo

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,309 · ~7/day · ~209/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26630 days

70990 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

paulhendricks/detector ↗Account: paulhendricks

15Stars

5Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

33Commits

1Commit identities

33 commits · Last activity 2017-07-01 · Default branch at 0.1.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 209
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-01-26 · 152026-07-07 · 15

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/paulhendricks/detector on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2017-07-01

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing detector adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.2

Imports (1)

stringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat generator

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Paul Hendricks

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2015)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.0Latest
record
2015-08-28 · current release
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-08-28
Total releases: 1 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.2
Download size: 5.4 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("detector")

Format

Hendricks, P. (2015). detector: Detect Data Containing Personally Identifiable Information (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.detector

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 detector version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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