R Observatory: Metrics for easyComment version 2.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

easyComment

2.1.0Package record

Generate Comment Boxes with Custom Alignment

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

98.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gregoire MullerCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗

Provides a function to generate comment boxes framed with '#' characters, with configurable width and text alignment (left, center, or right). Useful for formatting scripts and improving code readability.

Install

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

install.packages("easyComment", 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("r-packages3/easycomment")

Development version from r-packages3/easycomment. 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-easycomment

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-easyComment

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-easyComment

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: 45 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK3 OK2026-04-04

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.0

READMEYes · 44 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,720 · ~6/day · ~186/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27030 days

79090 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on45 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gitlab.com/r-packages3/easycomment ↗

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

8Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as MIT · 8 commits · Last activity 2026-04-06

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against gitlab.com/r-packages3/easycomment on 2026-10-21.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-05
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 4.61 commit · Apr 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

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)

Gregoire Muller

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.1.0

Maintainer since 2.0.0 (2026)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Grégoire Muller

no longer listed · 2.0.0

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.1.0Latest
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2026-04-11 · current release · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2026-04-03
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-03
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 6.3 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("easyComment")

Format

Muller, G. (2026). easyComment: Generate Comment Boxes with Custom Alignment (Version 2.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.easyComment

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 easyComment version 2.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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