R Observatory: Metrics for globals version 0.19.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

globals

0.19.1

Identify Global Objects in R Expressions

18packages depend

3.9Mdownloads / year

86.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonFirst published 2015-06-1135 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Identifies global ("unknown" or "free") objects in R expressions by code inspection using various strategies (ordered, liberal, conservative, or deep-first search). The objective of this package is to make it as simple as possible to identify global objects for the purpose of exporting them in parallel, distributed compute environments.

Install

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

install.packages("globals", 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("futureverse/globals")

Development version from futureverse/globals. 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-globals

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-globals

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-globals

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

86.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

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

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 83%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.9M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #176 · ~10.8K/day · ~328K/mo

Releases R versions

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1M90 days

3.9M1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ futureverse/globals

29Stars

3Forks

19Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

756Commits

2Contributors

rpackagecode-inspectioncranr-package

756 commits · Last activity 2026-05-19

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/futureverse/globals on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.2

Imports (1)

codetools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

18direct

1,317indirect

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Davis Vaughan

Contributor · added in 0.13.1

Copyright holders (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-11
Total releases: 35 / 11 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2.1)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.2
Download size: 51 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Bengtsson, H., & Vaughan, D. (2026). globals: Identify Global Objects in R Expressions (Version 0.19.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.globals

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for globals version 0.19.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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