R Observatory: Metrics for fail version 1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fail

1.3Package record

File Abstraction Interface Layer (FAIL)

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

86.4%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michel LangCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

More comfortable interface to work with R data or source files in a key-value fashion.

Install

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

install.packages("fail", 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("mllg/fail")

Development version from mllg/fail. 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-fail

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-fail

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-fail

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

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

Maintainer: ‘Michel Lang <michellang@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Michel",
                    family = "Lang",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "michellang@gmail.com")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 56 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,644 · ~9/day · ~268/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32530 days

92490 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on64 r2u5 autocran1.3K conda_forge161 bioconda118 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mllg/fail ↗Account: mllg

6Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

95Commits

1Commit identities

95 commits · Last activity 2016-06-15 · Default branch at 1.4, ahead of CRAN 1.3 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 176
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2019-07-26 · 62026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mllg/fail on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Lint, format, editor (1)

EditorConfig

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fail adds 4 packages (4 with compiled code, 6.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, checkmate 247 KB, BBmisc 86 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

statsutilsBBmisc checkmate

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 (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Michel Lang

Maintainer since 1.0 (2012)

Releases (4)

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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
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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2013-09-19 · diff ↗ ·
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

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2013-02-05 · diff ↗
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2012-12-04
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-12-04
Total releases: 4 / 14 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 10 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fail")

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 fail version 1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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