R Observatory: Metrics for downloadthis version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

downloadthis

0.5.0Package record

Implement Download Buttons in 'rmarkdown'

0packages dependsuggested by 3

13.2Kdownloads / year

90.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Felipe Mattioni MaturanaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implement download buttons in HTML output from 'rmarkdown' without the need for 'runtime:shiny'.

Changes in 0.5.0

Returned to base64enc dependency (#48).
Updated fontawesome icons to v.6.7.2.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("downloadthis", 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("fmmattioni/downloadthis")

Development version from fmmattioni/downloadthis. 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-downloadthis

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-downloadthis

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-downloadthis

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: 1.3 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 0.5.0

READMEYes · 185 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 6 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

13.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,469 · ~36/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1K30 days

3.1K90 days

13.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on674 r2u3 autocran1.6K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

fmmattioni/downloadthis ↗Account: fmmattioni

150Stars

7Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

11Releases

182Commits

4Commit identities

182 commits · Last activity 2025-07-11 · Discussions: 6 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 57
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

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/fmmattioni/downloadthis 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 (3)

Code of conductFunding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors, buymeacoffee.com, paypal.me

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-07-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

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

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing downloadthis adds 63 packages (34 with compiled code, 46 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (10)

fs readr writexl bsplus mime htmltools magrittr zip ggplot2 base64enc

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat spelling covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

OmicFlow projoint metabolic

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Felipe Mattioni Maturana

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

John Coene

Contributor · added in 0.3.1

Releases (13)

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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-05-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
download_dir, download_file, download_link
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-02-25
Total releases: 13 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("downloadthis")

Format

Mattioni Maturana, F., & Coene, J. (2025). downloadthis: Implement Download Buttons in 'rmarkdown' (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.downloadthis

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for downloadthis version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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