R Observatory: Metrics for githubr version 0.9.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

githubr

0.9.1Package record

Easier to Use API Wrapper for 'GitHub'

0packages depend

4.6Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Candace SavonenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

This is a 'GitHub' API wrapper for R. https://docs.github.com/en/rest It uses the 'gh' package but has things wrapped up for convenient use cases.

Changes in 0.9.1

This is a very early version of this package. More to come.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("githubr", 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("fhdsl/githubr")

Development version from fhdsl/githubr. 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-githubr

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-githubr

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-githubr

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: 2.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-21
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-20
OK13 OK2026-05-12

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.1

READMEYes · 77 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.9.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 0%4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,148 · ~13/day · ~386/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

42730 days

1.1K90 days

4.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on68 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

fhdsl/githubr ↗Organization: fhdsl

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

31Commits

1Commit identities

apigithubr

31 commits · Last activity 2023-10-24

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-10-20 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/fhdsl/githubr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesPR template

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing githubr adds 26 packages (15 with compiled code, 8.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

gitcreds dplyr gh magrittr httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Candace Savonen

Maintainer since 0.9.1 (2023), Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.9.1Latest
record
2023-10-20 · current release
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-10-20
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 5.9 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("githubr")

Format

Savonen, C. (2023). githubr: Easier to Use API Wrapper for 'GitHub' (Version 0.9.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.githubr

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 githubr version 0.9.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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