R Observatory: Metrics for dotenv version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dotenv

1.0.3Package record

Load Environment Variables from '.env'

5packages dependsuggested by 4

89.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Load configuration from a '.env' file, that is in the current working directory, into environment variables.

Changes in 1.0.3

dotenv now does not error if the env file is empty (#5, @cimentadaj).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("dotenv", 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("gaborcsardi/dotenv")

Development version from gaborcsardi/dotenv. 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-dotenv

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-dotenv

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-dotenv

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-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

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  dotenv/R/dotenv-package.r (.Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 39 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.3

READMEYes · 267 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

89.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,726 · ~246/day · ~7.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.3K30 days

12.1K90 days

89.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on16.9K r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

gaborcsardi/dotenv ↗Account: gaborcsardi

102Stars

8Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

35Commits

4Commit identities

35 commits · Last activity 2022-10-04 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.3 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-09-18 · 972026-07-07 · 102

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/gaborcsardi/dotenv on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

basedosdados geoflow surveydown framework sdstudio

Suggests, most downloaded first

aisdk urlshorteneR videogameinsightsR consibiocloudclient

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.0.2

Maintainer since 1.0 (2014)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Gabor Csardi

no longer listed · 1.0.1

Releases (4)

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-27
Total releases: 4 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 4.0 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dotenv")

Format

Csárdi, G. (2021). dotenv: Load Environment Variables from '.env' (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dotenv

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 dotenv version 1.0.3 [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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