R Observatory: Metrics for drat version 0.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

drat

0.2.5Package record

'Drat' R Archive Template

3packages dependsuggested by 2

29.1Kdownloads / year

23.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Creation and use of R Repositories via helper functions to insert packages into a repository, and to add repository information to the current R session. Two primary types of repositories are support: gh-pages at GitHub, as well as local repositories on either the same machine or a local network. Drat is a recursive acronym: Drat R Archive Template.

Changes in 0.2.5

Function insertPackage has a new optional argument OSflavour (Arne Holmin in 142)
A test file conditions correctly about git2r being present (Dirk)
Several smaller packaging updates and enhancements to continuous integration and documentation have been added (Dirk)

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("drat", 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("eddelbuettel/drat")

Development version from eddelbuettel/drat. 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-drat

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-drat

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-drat

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: 2.1 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 0.2.5

READMEYes · 578 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · staticNEWSYes · mentions 0.2.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 80%
Help pages citing references: 13%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

29.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,407 · ~80/day · ~2.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.2K30 days

6.8K90 days

29.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on816 r2u5 autocran2.7K conda_forge44 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

eddelbuettel/drat ↗Account: eddelbuettel

157Stars

97Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

462Commits

26Commit identities

rcranrepositoryrepository-toolsr-package

462 commits · Last activity 2026-08-10 · +0.6% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 77%
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

2025-06-18 · 1542026-10-08 · 157

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/drat on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-10

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

git2r simplermarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

1indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

pagoda2 knfi tashu

Suggests, most downloaded first

conos USA.state.boundaries

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2015)

Felix Ernst

Contributor · added in 0.2.4

Neal Fultz

Contributor · added in 0.1.4

Colin Gillespie

Contributor · added in 0.1.0

Jan Gorecki

Contributor · added in 0.2.4

Arne Johannes Holmin

Contributor · added in 0.2.4

Thomas Leeper

Contributor · added in 0.1.0

Joey Reid

Contributor · added in 0.2.4

Christoph Stepper

Contributor · added in 0.1.6

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Mark van der Loo

Contributor · added in 0.2.4

Listed in earlier versions (12)

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Carl Boettiger

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.3

Sebastian Gibb

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.3

Matt Jones

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.3

Steven Pav

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.3

Jan Schulz.

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.1.4

Jan Górecki

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.2.3

Jan Schulz

no longer listed · 0.1.5 to 0.2.3

Christoph Stepper.

no longer listed · 0.1.5

Releases (19)

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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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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-04-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-04-22 · diff ↗
0.1.8
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2020-07-18 · diff ↗
0.1.7
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2020-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
insertPackages, getRepoInfo, pruneRepoForAllRversions, updateRepo, archivePackagesForAllRversions
0.1.6
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2020-05-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.5
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2019-03-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.4
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2017-12-16 · diff ↗
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2017-09-16 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-10-29 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2016-08-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.0
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2015-08-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
archivePackages
0.0.4
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2015-05-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
initRepo, pruneRepo
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2015-04-10 · diff ↗
0.0.2
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2015-03-01 · diff ↗
0.0.1
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2015-02-05
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-02-05
Total releases: 19 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 177 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("drat")

Format

Eddelbuettel, D., Ernst, F., Fultz, N., Gillespie, C., Gorecki, J., Holmin, A. J., Leeper, T., Reid, J., Stepper, C., & van der Loo, M. (2024). drat: 'Drat' R Archive Template (Version 0.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.drat

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for drat version 0.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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