R Observatory: Metrics for gert version 2.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gert

2.5.0Package record

Simple Git Client for R

22packages dependsuggested by 13

2.6Mdownloads / year

70.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Simple git client for R based on 'libgit2' https://libgit2.org with support for SSH and HTTPS remotes. All functions in 'gert' use basic R data types (such as vectors and data-frames) for their arguments and return values. User credentials are shared with command line 'git' through the git-credential store and ssh keys stored on disk or ssh-agent.

Changes in 2.5.0

Add https.backend and ssh.backend to libgit2_config() (when available)
MacOS: fix hangs in fetch by using OpenSSL instead of SecureChannel.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gert", 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-lib/gert")

Development version from r-lib/gert. 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-gert

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-gert

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-gert

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: 4.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-21

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-20
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.5.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.5.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 25 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 46%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

gert HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #235 · ~7.2K/day · ~218.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

176.3K30 days

573.2K90 days

2.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on145K r2u14 autocran246.4K conda_forge2.6K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/gert ↗Organization: r-lib

162Stars

40Forks

29Open issues

2Open PRs

21Releases

713Commits

27Commit identities

713 commits · Last activity 2026-10-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.5.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.5.0 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 82%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1,176
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-08 · 1562026-07-07 · 162

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/gert on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-21

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-03-03
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 1 by its own account · at least 1 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-03-23
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-10-08, 1 from forks

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 5.51 commit · Oct 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

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gert adds 9 packages (7 with compiled code, 4.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

askpass credentials openssl rstudioapi sys zip

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

spelling knitr rmarkdown testthat roxygen2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

22direct

163indirect

Imports 22

Suggested by 13

Show all 35 packagesHide all 35 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

usethis umx rhub srr pkgcheck atime codemetar packager rcompendium worcs prodigenr orderly theorytools gittargets rsf fledge allcontributors ixplorer starter rasciidoc Rbearcat mortar

Suggests, most downloaded first

pkgdown RSQLite piggyback btw animint2 fusen ghclass circle prompt OmopStudyBuilder dpkg tugboat pkgmatch

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2019)

Maëlle Salmon

Author · added in 2.4.0

Jennifer Bryan

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Releases (38)

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2.5.0Latest
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2026-10-14 · current release · diff ↗
2.4.1
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2.4.0
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2026-07-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
git_branch_switch, git_config_get, git_config_global_get, git_config_global_unset, git_config_local_get, git_config_unset, git_restore, git_revert
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2.3.0
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added 11 exports
git_worktree_add, git_worktree_exists, git_worktree_is_locked, git_worktree_is_prunable, git_worktree_is_valid, git_worktree_list, git_worktree_lock, git_worktree_path, git_worktree_prune, git_worktree_remove, git_worktree_unlock
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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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2.0.0
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1.9.3
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git_commit_stats, git_ignore_path_is_ignored
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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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git_branch_move
1.3.2
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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1.2.0
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2021-02-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
git_stat_files
1.1.0
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2021-01-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
git_submodule_add, git_submodule_fetch, git_submodule_info, git_submodule_init, git_submodule_list, git_submodule_set_to
1.0.2
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2020-11-12 · diff ↗
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1.0.0
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2020-10-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
git_refspecs, git_reset

added 29 exports
git_ahead_behind, git_archive_zip, git_branch, git_branch_exists, git_cherry_pick, git_commit_descendant_of, git_commit_id, git_commit_info, git_conflicts, git_diff, git_diff_patch, git_fetch_pull_requests, git_merge, git_merge_abort, git_merge_analysis, git_merge_find_base, git_merge_stage_only, git_rebase_commit, git_rebase_list, git_remote_info, git_remote_ls, git_remote_refspecs, git_remote_set_pushurl, git_remote_set_url, git_reset_hard, git_reset_mixed, git_reset_soft, git_signature_parse, user_is_configured
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-10-29 · diff ↗
0.2
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2019-07-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
git_branch_set_upstream, git_checkout_pull_request, git_find
0.1
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2019-06-19
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-06-19
Total releases: 38 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 138 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gert")

Format

Ooms, J., Bryan, J., & Salmon, M. (2026). gert: Simple Git Client for R (Version 2.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gert

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 gert version 2.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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