R Observatory: Metrics for gmailr version 3.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gmailr

3.0.0Package record

Access the 'Gmail' 'RESTful' API

1packages dependsuggested by 1

107Kdownloads / year

39.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jennifer BryanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

An interface to the 'Gmail' 'RESTful' API. Allows access to your 'Gmail' messages, threads, drafts and labels.

Changes in 3.0.0

All HTTP responses are passed through gargle::response_process(), which updates gmailr's error handling to be consistent with other packages that use gargle for HTTP requests. Users might notice that errors are more verbose (and hopefully more informative). Also the class vector has changed:
Previously: c("condition", "error", "gmail_error")
Now: c("gmailr_error", "gargle_error_request_failed", "http_error_{XXX}", "gargle_error", "rlang_error", "error", "condition")
Text headers, such as Subject, are now properly prepared as per RFC 2047, fixing a problem with long-ish headers that contain non-ASCII characters (#193).
Fixed MIME structure for emails with text+HTML bodies and attachments. These messages now correctly use nested multipart/mixed (outer) containing multipart/alternative (inner text/HTML), preventing the loss of some of the message parts (#202).

Deprecations

Functions that lack the gm_ prefix have been removed, concluding a deprecation process that kicked off with gmailr 1.0.0 (released 2019-08-23). These functions were hard deprecated in gmailr 2.0.0 (released 2023-06-30). This eliminates many name conflicts with other packages (including with the base package, e.g. base::body() or base::message()).
Legacy auth functions clear_token(), gmail_auth(), and use_secret_file() have been removed, following the same deprecation timeline as described above.
gm_last_response() is deprecated, in favor of gargle::gargle_last_response(), since gmailr no longer caches the last response itself.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gmailr", 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("r-lib/gmailr")

Development version from r-lib/gmailr. 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-gmailr

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-gmailr

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-gmailr

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: 1.9 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 3.0.0

READMEYes · 358 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 48 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 22%8 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition) · 28 never run
Exported functions with examples: 78%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 13%
Help pages citing references: 60%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

107K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,730 · ~293/day · ~8.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7K30 days

5.4K90 days

107K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on229 r2u5 autocran121 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/gmailr ↗Organization: r-lib

237Stars

55Forks

21Open issues

2Open PRs

4Releases

465Commits

17Commit identities

465 commits · Last activity 2026-01-30 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.0.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 3.0.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 235
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-03 · 2342026-07-07 · 237

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/gmailr 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)

Code of conductCODEOWNERS

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-30 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-30

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2025-11-04
Seen in the repository: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: CLAUDE.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gmailr adds 25 packages (16 with compiled code, 9.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (12)

base64enc cli crayon gargle glue httr jsonlite lifecycle mime rappdirs rematch2 rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

curl knitrmethodsrmarkdown testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mailmerge

Suggests, most downloaded first

lgrExtra

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Jennifer Bryan

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2021) · added in 1.0.1

Jim Hester

Author

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.0.0

Previously maintained by Jim Hester (0.0.1 to 1.0.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.0.1

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.0.0Latest
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2026-01-30 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 45 exports
attach_file, attach_part, attachment, bcc, body, cc, clear_token, create_draft, create_label, date, delete_label, delete_message, delete_thread, draft, drafts, from, gmail_auth, history, html_body, id, import_message, insert_message, label, labels, message, messages, mime, modify_message, modify_thread, save_attachment and 15 more
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.0.0
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2023-06-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
%>%

added 5 exports
gm_default_email, gm_default_oauth_client, gm_oauth_client, gm_token_read, gm_token_write
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.1
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2021-11-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.0
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2019-08-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
last_response

added 53 exports
gm_attach_file, gm_attach_part, gm_attachment, gm_attachments, gm_auth, gm_auth_configure, gm_bcc, gm_body, gm_cc, gm_create_draft, gm_create_label, gm_date, gm_deauth, gm_delete_draft, gm_delete_label, gm_delete_message, gm_delete_thread, gm_draft, gm_drafts, gm_from, gm_has_token, gm_history, gm_html_body, gm_id, gm_import_message, gm_insert_message, gm_label, gm_labels, gm_last_response, gm_message and 23 more
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.7.1
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2016-04-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
bcc.gmail_draft, bcc.gmail_message, cc.gmail_draft, cc.gmail_message

added 3 exports
clear_token, last_response, use_secret_file

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R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.6.0
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2014-12-04 · diff ↗
0.5.0
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2014-09-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 20 exports
%>%, attach_file, attach_part, bcc, bcc.gmail_draft, bcc.gmail_message, cc, cc.gmail_draft, cc.gmail_message, create_draft, drafts, html_body, import_message, insert_message, messages, mime, quoted_printable_encode, send_draft, send_message, text_body
0.0.1
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2014-07-26
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-07-26
Total releases: 8 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 274 KB

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Bryan, J., Posit Software, PBC, & Hester, J. (2026). gmailr: Access the 'Gmail' 'RESTful' API (Version 3.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gmailr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gmailr version 3.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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