R Observatory: Metrics for golem version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

golem

1.0.1Package record

A Framework for Robust Shiny Applications

52packages dependsuggested by 6

125.3Kdownloads / year

88.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Colin FayCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An opinionated framework for building a production-ready 'Shiny' application. This package contains a series of tools for building a robust 'Shiny' application from start to finish.

Changes in 1.0.1

Bug fix

favicon() no longer depends on {fs}. favicon() runs at app _runtime_ (it is called by golem_add_external_resources() in the deployed app_ui.R), but it used to build its href with the internal fs_path() helper, which errors when {fs} is not installed. As {fs} is only a Suggests dependency of {golem}, apps deployed to an environment where {fs} was absent (e.g. a minimal Docker image installing only hard dependencies) would crash at UI render time. The href is now built with base R, so the deployed app carries no {fs} dependency (#1251).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("golem", 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("ThinkR-open/golem")

Development version from ThinkR-open/golem. 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-golem

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-golem

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-golem

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: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-27
ERROR12 OK, 2 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 313 wordsVignettesYes · 8 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 51 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 92%11 run in a plain check (9 of them under a condition) · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 25%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (8)

How these are measured

Downloads

125.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,264 · ~343/day · ~10.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

7.6K30 days

24K90 days

125.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.4K r2u3 autocran3.6K conda_forge122 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

thinkr-open/golem ↗Organization: ThinkR-open

947Stars

137Forks

21Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

2,021Commits

56Commit identities

rshinyshiny-appsshinyappsshiny-rr-packagehacktoberfestgolemverse

2,021 commits · Last activity 2026-09-15 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Discussions: 72 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 650
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 12

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 9432026-10-21 · 947

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

18 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thinkr-open/golem 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 (3)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-15

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

Lint, format, editor (4)

lintrLint workflowAirVS Code

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-02-05
Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/skills, CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: 1 by its own account · at least 37 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-02-05

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.720 commits · Apr to May 2026
Claude Opus 4.816 commits · Jun 2026
Claude Haiku 4.51 commit · Apr 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

36 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing golem adds 33 packages (20 with compiled code, 26 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (8)

attemptcodetoolsconfig htmltools rlang (>= 1.0.0)shinyutilsyaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

52direct

2indirect

Imports 52

Suggested by 6

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 4 more dependents and 6 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Colin Fay

Maintainer since 0.3.1 (2021), Author

Cervan Girard

Author

Vincent Guyader

Author

previous maintainer

Sébastien Rochette

Author

Arthur Bréant

Contributor · added in 0.3.2

David Granjon

Contributor · added in 0.3.1

Antoine Languillaume

Contributor · added in 0.3.2

Novica Nakov

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Ilya Zarubin

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

ThinkR

Copyright holder

Previously maintained by Vincent Guyader (0.1 to 0.2.1).

Releases (14)

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1.0.1Latest
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2026-07-07 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2026-06-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
add_rstudioconnect_file, get_sysreqs, use_recommended_deps

added 8 exports
add_github_action, add_gitlab_ci, fct_template, use_agent_skills, use_bundled_html, use_claude_skills, use_skill, use_skills
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.1
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2024-08-27 · diff ↗
0.5.0
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2024-08-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
add_empty_file, add_positconnect_file, add_r6, add_rscignore_file, empty_template, golem_welcome_page, is_golem, use_readme_rmd
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.1
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2023-06-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.0
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2023-03-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
add_partial_html_template, get_current_config, install_dev_deps, maintenance_page, pkg_name, pkg_path, pkg_version
0.3.5
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2022-10-18 · diff ↗
0.3.4
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2022-09-26 · diff ↗
0.3.3
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2022-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
add_dockerfile_with_renv, add_dockerfile_with_renv_heroku, add_dockerfile_with_renv_shinyproxy
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.2
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2022-03-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
add_sass_file, sass_template, use_module_test, use_utils_test_server, use_utils_test_ui
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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0.3.1
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2021-04-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 19 exports
add_html_template, add_js_input_binding, add_js_output_binding, css_template, disable_autoload, expect_running, is_running, js_handler_template, js_template, module_template, project_hook, run_dev, sanity_check, use_external_file, use_external_html_template, use_internal_css_file, use_internal_file, use_internal_html_template, use_internal_js_file
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.1
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2020-03-05 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2020-03-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_dependencies

added 12 exports
add_fct, add_resource_path, add_utils, amend_golem_config, bundle_resources, get_golem_name, get_golem_version, get_sysreqs, set_golem_name, set_golem_version, use_external_css_file, use_external_js_file
0.1
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2019-08-05
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-05
Total releases: 14 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.7 MB

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citation("golem")

Format

Fay, C., ThinkR, Bréant, A., Girard, C., Granjon, D., Guyader, V., Languillaume, A., Nakov, N., Rochette, S., & Zarubin, I. (2026). golem: A Framework for Robust Shiny Applications (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.golem

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for golem version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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