R Observatory: Metrics for git2r version 0.36.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

git2r

0.36.2

Provides Access to Git Repositories

34packages depend

539Kdownloads / year

81.0%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Stefan WidgrenFirst published 2015-02-1930 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Interface to the 'libgit2' library, which is a pure C implementation of the 'Git' core methods. Provides access to 'Git' repositories to extract data and running some basic 'Git' commands.

Install

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

install.packages("git2r", 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("ropensci/git2r")

Development version from ropensci/git2r. 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-git2r

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-git2r

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-git2r

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 4.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.70

81.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 3%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 98%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

539K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #577 · ~1.5K/day · ~44.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31.8K30 days

115.7K90 days

539K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on8.6K r2u159 autocran36.2K conda_forge93 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/git2r

222Stars

61Forks

91Open issues

5Open PRs

32Releases

2,795Commits

32Contributors

libgit2libgit2-librarygitgit-clientrrstatsr-package

License GPL-2.0 · 2,795 commits · Last activity 2026-02-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-30 · 2202026-07-07 · 222

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/git2r on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (2)

graphicsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

getPass

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

34direct

2indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (11)

Maintainer (1)

Stefan Widgren

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.35.0

Authors (1)

Stefan Widgren

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.35.0

Contributors (10)

John Blischak

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Jennifer Bryan

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Peter Carbonetto

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Gabor Csardi

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Jim Hester

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Gregory Jefferis

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Show 2 more contributors

Karthik Ram

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Thomas Rosendal

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

See AUTHORS file.

no longer listed · 0.6 to 0.33.0

Package Timeline

30 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.36.2Latest
2025-03-29 · current release · diff ↗
0.35.0
2024-10-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.33.0
2023-11-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.32.0
2023-04-12 · diff ↗
0.31.0
2023-01-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.30.1
2022-03-16 · diff ↗
0.29.0
2021-11-22 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.28.0
2021-01-10 · diff ↗
0.27.1
2020-05-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Show 27 earlier events

0.26.1
2019-06-30 · diff ↗
0.26.0
2019-06-29 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.25.2
2019-03-20 · diff ↗
0.25.1
2019-03-17 · diff ↗
0.24.0
2019-01-07 · diff ↗
0.23.0
2018-07-17 · diff ↗
0.22.1
2018-07-10 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.21.0
2018-01-04 · diff ↗
0.20.0
2017-12-17 · diff ↗
0.19.0
2017-07-19 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.18.0
2017-01-01 · diff ↗
0.17.0
2016-12-29 · diff ↗
0.16.0
2016-11-20 · diff ↗
0.15.0
2016-05-11 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.14.0
2016-03-13 · diff ↗
0.13.1
2015-12-10 · diff ↗
0.12.1
2015-12-05 · diff ↗
0.11.0
2015-08-12 · diff ↗
0.10.1
2015-05-07 · diff ↗
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.7
2015-02-23 · diff ↗
0.6
2015-02-19
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-02-19
Total releases: 30 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 234 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Widgren, S., Blischak, J., Bryan, J., Carbonetto, P., Chamberlain, S., Csardi, G., Hester, J., Jefferis, G., Ooms, J., Ram, K., & Rosendal, T. (2025). git2r: Provides Access to Git Repositories (Version 0.36.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.git2r

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for git2r version 0.36.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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