R Observatory: Metrics for git2r version 0.36.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

git2r

0.36.2Package record

Provides Access to Git Repositories

18packages dependsuggested by 16

497.4Kdownloads / year

80.9%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stefan WidgrenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 0.36.2

CHANGES

Use 'pkg-config --static --libs' in the build configuration script on the Darwin platform.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  git2r/tests/checkout.R (.Names: 8)
  git2r/tests/invalid-conf-var.R (.Names: 1)
  git2r/tests/tag.R (.Dim: 1, .Dimnames: 1, .Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Dimnames' should be changed to 'dimnames'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.36.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.36.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 113 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 3%3 run in a plain check · 104 never run
Exported functions with examples: 97%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

497.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #607 · ~1.4K/day · ~41.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30.3K30 days

99.1K90 days

497.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on9.1K r2u195 autocran33.3K conda_forge216 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/git2r ↗Organization: ropensci

223Stars

61Forks

91Open issues

5Open PRs

32Releases

2,795Commits

32Commit identities

libgit2libgit2-librarygitgit-clientrrstatsr-package

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 2,795 commits · Last activity 2026-02-22 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.36.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.36.2 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-02 · 2212026-09-13 · 223

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/git2r on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing git2r adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (2)

graphicsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

getPass

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

18direct

2indirect

Imports 18

Suggested by 16

Show all 34 packagesHide all 34 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mlflow workflowr git2rdata flir ropenblas autonewsmd PaRe sketchy gitdown cabinets cheatsheet Rbearcat fgitR kirby21.base changer rDataPipeline git4r RepoGenerator

Suggests, most downloaded first

remotes drat Rcereal gistr groundhog sinew precommit adaptalint ixplorer envDocument datom nat.templatebrains lvmisc configulaR cometr SQLFormatteR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (11)

Stefan Widgren

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.35.0

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

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Karthik Ram

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Thomas Rosendal

Contributor · added in 0.35.0

Maintainer since 0.6 (2015)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

See AUTHORS file.

no longer listed · 0.6 to 0.33.0

Releases (30)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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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added 1 export
lookup_commit
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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0.22.1
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2018-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
libgit2_sha

added 86 exports
add, ahead_behind, as.data.frame, blame, blob_create, branch_create, branch_delete, branch_get_upstream, branch_remote_name, branch_remote_url, branch_rename, branch_set_upstream, branch_target, branches, bundle_r_package, checkout, clone, commit, commits, content, contributions, cred_env, cred_user_pass, default_signature, descendant_of, diff, discover_repository, fetch, fetch_heads, git_config_files and 56 more
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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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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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config, cred_ssh_key, cred_token, remote_ls, ssl_cert_locations
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libgit2_sha
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2015-02-19
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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

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citation("git2r")

Format

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 v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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