R Observatory: Metrics for gittargets version 0.0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gittargets

0.0.7Package record

Data Version Control for the Targets Package

0packages depend

7.7Kdownloads / year

22.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by William Michael LandauCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

In computationally demanding data analysis pipelines, the 'targets' R package (2021, doi:10.21105/joss.02959) maintains an up-to-date set of results while skipping tasks that do not need to rerun. This process increases speed and increases trust in the final end product. However, it also overwrites old output with new output, and past results disappear by default. To preserve historical output, the 'gittargets' package captures version-controlled snapshots of the data store, and each snapshot links to the underlying commit of the source code. That way, when the user rolls back the code to a previous branch or commit, 'gittargets' can recover the data contemporaneous with that commit so that all targets remain up to date.

Changes in 0.0.7

Migrate tests to targets >= 1.3.2.9004 progress statuses ("completed" instead of "built", "dispatched" instead of "started").

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gittargets", 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/gittargets")

Development version from ropensci/gittargets. 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-gittargets

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-gittargets

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-gittargets

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-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.7

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.0.7Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Description cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 11 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 90%9 run in a plain check (7 of them under a condition) · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Tutorial: Git data backend HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

7.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,797 · ~21/day · ~640/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44430 days

1.3K90 days

7.7K1 year

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Also on71 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/gittargets ↗Organization: ropensci

90Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

224Commits

3Commit identities

data-version-controldata-versioningworkflowdata-sciencerreproducible-researchrstatsr-package

224 commits · Last activity 2024-07-17 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.0.7.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.0.7 (checked 2026-10-18) · Discussions: 4 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-02 · 872026-07-07 · 90

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

14 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/gittargets 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 (4)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-01-12

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gittargets adds 40 packages (25 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (10)

callr cli data.table gert processxstatstargets tibbleutilsuuid

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr markdown rmarkdown 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 (4)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2022)

Eli Lilly and Company

Copyright holder

David Neuzerling

Reviewer

Saras Windecker

Reviewer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Landau

no longer listed · 0.0.1 to 0.0.7

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-01-13
Total releases: 6 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 378 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("gittargets")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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 gittargets version 0.0.7 [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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