R Observatory: Metrics for gettz version 0.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gettz

0.0.6Package record

Get the Timezone Information

0packages dependsuggested by 1

31.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A function to retrieve the system timezone on Unix systems which has been found to find an answer when 'Sys.timezone()' has failed. It is based on an answer by Duane McCully posted on 'StackOverflow', and adapted to be callable from R. The package also builds on Windows, but just returns NULL. The functionality it offers was not available in R when the package was written, but has since been added which reduces the need for this package.

Install

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

install.packages("gettz", 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("eddelbuettel/gettz")

Development version from eddelbuettel/gettz. 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-gettz

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-gettz

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-gettz

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: 1.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-28
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-10
WARNING11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-05-09
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.6

READMEYes · 271 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 1includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

31.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,900 · ~86/day · ~2.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.5K30 days

4.9K90 days

31.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on424 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

eddelbuettel/gettz ↗Account: eddelbuettel

2Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

38Commits

2Commit identities

cranrr-package

38 commits · Last activity 2026-08-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/gettz on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

anytime

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2016)

Releases (6)

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0.0.6Latest
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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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2016-11-05 · diff ↗
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2016-10-18 · diff ↗
0.0.1
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2016-09-10

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-09-10
Total releases: 6 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 11 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gettz")

Format

Eddelbuettel, D. (2026). gettz: Get the Timezone Information (Version 0.0.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gettz

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

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 gettz version 0.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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