R Observatory: Metrics for dlr version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dlr

1.0.1Package record

Download and Cache Files Safely

2packages depend

10Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jon HarmonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Bedford Freeman & Worth Pub Grp LLC DBA Macmillan Learning

The goal of dlr is to provide a friendly wrapper around the common pattern of downloading a file if that file does not already exist locally.

Changes in 1.0.1

Updated package to use fs::path_norm to work more seamlessly between platforms.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("dlr", 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("macmillancontentscience/dlr")

Development version from macmillancontentscience/dlr. 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-dlr

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-dlr

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-dlr

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-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 1.0.1

READMEYes · 172 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15 (7 internal)
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Integrating into Your Package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

10K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,012 · ~27/day · ~833/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

53230 days

1.1K90 days

10K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on89 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

macmillancontentscience/dlr ↗Organization: macmillancontentscience

1Stars

0Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

18Commits

1Commit identities

18 commits · Last activity 2022-09-22 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.1.9001, ahead of CRAN 1.0.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 24
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-07 · 02026-09-14 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/macmillancontentscience/dlr on 2026-10-18.

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dlr adds 4 packages (4 with compiled code, 2.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, rlang 766 KB, digest 231 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

digest fs rappdirs rlangutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

1indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

morphemepiece wordpiece

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Jon Harmon

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

Jonathan Bratt

Author

Bedford Freeman & Worth Pub Grp LLC DBA Macmillan Learning

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (2)

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1.0.1Latest
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2021-09-18 · current release · diff ↗
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2021-09-06
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-06
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Download size: 19 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dlr")

Format

Harmon, J., Bedford Freeman & Worth Pub Grp LLC DBA Macmillan Learning, & Bratt, J. (2021). dlr: Download and Cache Files Safely (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dlr

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 dlr version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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