R Observatory: Metrics for getPass version 0.2-4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

getPass

0.2-4Package record

Masked User Input

24packages dependsuggested by 8

258.2Kdownloads / year

23.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Drew SchmidtCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A micro-package for reading "passwords", i.e. reading user input with masking, so that the input is not displayed as it is typed. Currently we have support for 'RStudio', the command line (every OS), and any platform where 'tcltk' is present.

Install

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

install.packages("getPass", 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("wrathematics/getPass")

Development version from wrathematics/getPass. 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-getpass

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-getPass

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-getPass

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: 2.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2-4

READMEYes · 167 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Vignettes (1)

Guide to the getPass Package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

258.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #765 · ~707/day · ~21.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16.3K30 days

63.3K90 days

258.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on4.2K r2u180 autocran17K conda_forge173 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

wrathematics/getpass ↗Account: wrathematics

49Stars

5Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

198Commits

5Commit identities

198 commits · Last activity 2023-12-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-07-01 · 472026-07-07 · 49

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/wrathematics/getpass on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Governance and community (2)

Contributing guideIssue templates

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing getPass adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 128 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rstudioapi 128 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (2)

utilsrstudioapi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

24direct

15indirect

Imports 24

Suggested by 8

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

Hmisc restfulr git2r shinyloadtest telegramR REDCapExporter OmopStudyBuilder copernicusR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Drew Schmidt

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2016)

Wei-Chen Chen

Author

Gabor Csardi

Contributor

Improved terminal detection

Rich FitzJohn

Contributor · added in 0.2-1

Releases (5)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2016-02-25

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-25
Total releases: 5 / 10 yrs
License: BSD 2-clause License + file LICENSE
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 243 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("getPass")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 getPass version 0.2-4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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