R Observatory: Metrics for dtrackr version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dtrackr

0.5.0Package record

Track your Data Pipelines

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

82.6%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert ChallenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Track and document 'dplyr' data pipelines. As you filter, mutate, and join your way through a data set, 'dtrackr' seamlessly keeps track of your data flow and makes publication ready documentation of a data pipeline simple.

Changes in 0.5.0

support for tidyr::nest and tidyr::unnest to handle long format data
improvements in support for tidyr::pivot_wider and tidyr::pivot_longer
issue raised with tidyr in their implementation of unnest and workaround described in the examples for dtrackr::unnest.trackr_df
added support for configuring fonts, colours and orientation of dot graph.
better support for pausing dataframe tracking when number of groups exceeds configured threshold.
updated vignettes to demonstrate new options, and approaches to working with long format data.
TODO: (future version) exclusions in joins
TODO: (future version) column level tracking (prototyped in 0.2.5)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("dtrackr", 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("terminological/dtrackr")

Development version from terminological/dtrackr. 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-dtrackr

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-dtrackr

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Robert Challen <rob.challen@bristol.ac.uk>’

Problems when reading CITATION file:
  Replacing special names ‘.Names’ is deprecated; use ‘names’ instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.0

READMEYes · 554 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 119 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%115 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 97%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,642 · ~10/day · ~292/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37530 days

97690 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on82 r2u690 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

terminological/dtrackr ↗Organization: terminological

72Stars

6Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

18Releases

132Commits

3Commit identities

132 commits · Last activity 2025-09-04 · +1.4% stars, 30d · Discussions: 1 post

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 15
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-01-30 · 682026-10-10 · 72

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/terminological/dtrackr 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

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-04

pkgdown site last built 2025-08-29, before release 0.5.0 (2025-09-01)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dtrackr adds 40 packages (28 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, fs 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (18)

dplyr glue htmltools magrittr rlang rsvg stringr tibble tidyrutilsV8 fs purrr base64enc pdftools png lifecycle scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

spelling here knitr rmarkdown tidyselect devtools testthat rstudioapisurvivalggplot2 covr

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)

Robert Challen

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.4 (2022)

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.0Latest
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2025-09-01 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
p_nest, p_unnest
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.6
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2024-10-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.4
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2023-09-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
p_reframe
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.0
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2023-03-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
add_count, landscape

added 21 exports
bind_cols, p_add_count, p_add_tally, p_arrange, p_bind_cols, p_intersect, p_nest_join, p_relocate, p_rename, p_rename_with, p_select, p_setdiff, p_slice, p_slice_head, p_slice_max, p_slice_min, p_slice_sample, p_slice_tail, p_transmute, p_union, p_union_all
0.2.4
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2022-07-05
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-07-05
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 1.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("dtrackr")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.04707.

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 dtrackr version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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