R Observatory: Metrics for gWidgets2 version 1.0-10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gWidgets2

1.0-10Package record

Rewrite of gWidgets API for Simplified GUI Construction

6packages dependsuggested by 5

30.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by John VerzaniCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Re-implementation of the 'gWidgets' API. The API is defined in this package. A second, toolkit-specific package is required to use it. At this point only 'gWidgets2tcltk' is viable.

Install

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

install.packages("gWidgets2", 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("gWidgets3/gWidgets2")

Development version from gWidgets3/gWidgets2. 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-gwidgets2

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-gWidgets2

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-gWidgets2

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

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘S4-classes.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-release-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 1.0-10

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

Help pages: 83includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 35%9 run in a plain check (8 of them under a condition) · 17 never run
Exported functions with examples: 38%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 46%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

30.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,888 · ~83/day · ~2.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7K30 days

5K90 days

30.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on150 r2u4 autocran1.3K conda_forge98 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gwidgets3/gwidgets2 ↗Account: gwidgets3

3Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

250Commits

5Commit identities

250 commits · Last activity 2022-01-10 · The default branch showed an older version (1.0-9) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-08-18 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/gwidgets3/gwidgets2 on 2026-10-21.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gWidgets2 adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 231 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: digest 231 KB.

Depends (2)

methodsdigest

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

3indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 4

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

asbio gWidgets2tcltk strvalidator ie2misc migui plfMA

Suggests, most downloaded first

baseline actel maGUI TopKLists relMix

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

John Verzani

Author, Maintainer since 1.0-2 (2013)

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0-10Latest
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2024-12-07 · current release · diff ↗
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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
1.0-9
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2022-01-10 · diff ↗
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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
1.0-8
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2019-02-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0-7
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2016-06-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
add3rdMousePopupMenu, add3rdmousePopupMenu
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0-6
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2015-06-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
add3rdMousePopupMenu, addHandlerControlclick, addHandlerShiftclick, addRightclickPopupMenu

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R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
1.0-5
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2014-03-05 · diff ↗
1.0-4
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2013-10-25 · diff ↗
1.0-2
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2013-10-19
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-10-19
Total releases: 8 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 414 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("gWidgets2")

Format

Verzani, J. (2024). gWidgets2: Rewrite of gWidgets API for Simplified GUI Construction (Version 1.0-10) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gWidgets2

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gWidgets2 version 1.0-10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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