R Observatory: Metrics for envnames version 0.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

envnames

0.4.2Package record

Track User-Defined Environment Names

1packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

90.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel MastropietroCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Set of functions to keep track and find objects in user-defined environments by identifying environments by name --which cannot be retrieved with the built-in function environmentName(). The package also provides functionality to obtain simplified information about function calling chains and to get an object's memory address.

Install

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

install.packages("envnames", 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("mastropi/envnames")

Development version from mastropi/envnames. 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-envnames

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-envnames

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-envnames

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: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-07
ERROR10 OK, 1 NOTE, 2 ERROR2026-07-14
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-05-03
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.2

READMEYes · 129 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.4.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 41 (27 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 2%

Vignettes (1)

Overview of the envnames package

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,157 · ~9/day · ~279/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35330 days

1K90 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on369 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mastropi/envnames ↗Account: mastropi

2Stars

1Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

63Commits

3Commit identities

63 commits · Last activity 2026-09-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 117
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 69

Stars over time

2024-12-25 · 22026-07-07 · 2

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/mastropi/envnames on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

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

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

envsetup

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Daniel Mastropietro

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2018)

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.4.2Latest
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2026-09-01 · current release · diff ↗
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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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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.1
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2020-12-08 · 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
0.4.0
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2019-01-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
testenv
0.3.0
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2018-07-22
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-22
Total releases: 4 / 8 yrs
License: GPL
Download size: 461 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("envnames")

Format

Mastropietro, D. (2026). envnames: Track User-Defined Environment Names (Version 0.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.envnames

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

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for envnames version 0.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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