R Observatory: Metrics for gittargets version 0.0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gittargets

0.0.7

Data Version Control for the Targets Package

0packages depend

8.2Kdownloads / year

22.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by William Michael LandauFirst published 2022-01-136 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.55

22.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

8.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,751 · ~22/day · ~681/mo

Releases R versions

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21730 days

1.4K90 days

8.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/gittargets

90Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

224Commits

3Contributors

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224 commits · Last activity 2024-07-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-05-02 · 872026-07-07 · 90

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

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

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesPR template

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer

Copyright holders (1)

Eli Lilly and Company

Copyright holder

Reviewers (2)

David Neuzerling

Reviewer

Saras Windecker

Reviewer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Landau

no longer listed · 0.0.1 to 0.0.7

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.7Latest
2023-12-04 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.0.6
2023-02-09 · diff ↗
0.0.5
2022-09-06 · diff ↗
0.0.4
2022-08-05 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.3
2022-02-13 · diff ↗
0.0.1
2022-01-13
R
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gittargets")

Format

Landau, W. M., Eli Lilly and Company, , Neuzerling, D., & Windecker, S. (2023). gittargets: Data Version Control for the Targets Package (Version 0.0.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gittargets

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gittargets version 0.0.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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