R Observatory: Metrics for goodpractice version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

goodpractice

1.2.0Package record

Advice on R Package Building

1packages dependsuggested by 3

16.6Kdownloads / year

98.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark PadghamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Give advice about good practices when building R packages. Advice includes functions and syntax to avoid, package structure, code complexity, code formatting, etc.

Changes in 1.2.0

Major changes

Require R version >= 4.3, because of treesitter dependency (#302; thanks to @christian-million)
New use_skill_gp() and learn_skill_gp() functions, plus a bundled goodpractice4agents.md skill in inst/skills/, giving AI agents instructions to fix issues flagged by goodpractice (#308, #312, #313; thanks to @mpadge, @drmowinckels, and @jonthegeek).
New vignette, "'goodpractice' for developers" describing Makefile (#305), and overall check structure.

Minor changes

New GitHub issue templates for bug reports and feature requests
complexity_unused_internal check no longer flags standard R package hook functions (.onLoad, .onAttach, .onUnload, .onDetach, .Last.lib) as unused (#319; thanks @TanguyBarthelemy).
Fix urlchecker prep step to pass fail = FALSE to urlchecker::url_check(), restoring previous default behaviour after an upstream change (r-lib/urlchecker#42).
.Rprofile now sources the system-level ~/.Rprofile if it exists, rather than entirely replacing it.
Fix test-integrity.R to only read .R source files (avoiding installed .rdb binaries) and skip informatively when none are found.
tidyverse_r_file_names: allow file names containing hyphens (-) but require file extension .R (#307; thanks to @JesseAlderliesten).
Fix bug in check group exclusions through env vars, and update vignette.

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Fix prep assignment to check groups for two checks (revdep + 1 tidyverse), including attaching "namespace" prep only internally to one of those so full tidyverse prep stage is only run for that group.
Fix bug in printing some check results that would produce an error caused by invalid marker types (#304; thanks to @JesseAlderliesten).
Convert the remaining base warning() in ts_parse() to cli::cli_warn(), completing the package-wide move to cli messaging.

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("goodpractice", 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-review-tools/goodpractice")

Development version from ropensci-review-tools/goodpractice. 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-goodpractice

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-goodpractice

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-goodpractice

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: 8.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-05
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-21
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-10

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.0

READMEYes · 1,108 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%15 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

16.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,084 · ~45/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

4.2K90 days

16.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on260 r2u5 autocran1.3K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci-review-tools/goodpractice ↗Organization: ropensci-review-tools

482Stars

35Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

672Commits

24Commit identities

672 commits · Last activity 2026-10-14 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2.0.001, ahead of CRAN 1.2.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 23
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 4702026-10-17 · 482

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci-review-tools/goodpractice on 2026-10-11.

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 conduct (inherited from ropensci-review-tools)Contributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-07-13

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

For agents and models (1)

Agent skills

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-02-13
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 132 crediting it in the message

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENT.md

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 32 from outside contributors, first on 2026-02-13, 32 from forks

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.6100 commits · Feb to Mar 2026

Some of these counts are a minimum, because the search stopped before the oldest commits.

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

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing goodpractice adds 56 packages (25 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: hunspell 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, fs 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (19)

cli covr curl cyclocomp desc jsonlite lintr praise rcmdcheck roxygen2 rstudioapi spellingtoolstreesitter treesitter.r urlcheckerutilswhoami withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

future future.apply kableExtra knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

pkgcheck

Suggests, most downloaded first

autotest maidr pagerankr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (11)

Mark Padgham

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.5 (2024) · added in 1.0.5

Hannah Alexander

Author · added in 1.0.3

Gabor Csardi

Author

Hannah Frick

Author

Owen Jones

Author · added in 1.0.3

owenjonesuob

Karina Marks

Author · added in 1.0.3

KarinaMarks

Athanasia Mo Mowinckel

Author · added in 1.1.0

drmowinckels

Daniel de Bortoli

Author · added in 1.0.3

ddbortoli

Fabian Scheipl

Contributor · added in 1.0.3

fabian-s

Ana Simmons

Contributor · added in 1.0.3

anasimmons

Ascent Digital Services UK Limited

Copyright holder · added in 1.0.3

MangoTheCat

Previously maintained by Karina Marks (1.0.3 to 1.0.4) and Hannah Frick (1.0.2).

Releases (6)

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1.2.0Latest
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2026-08-31 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
learn_skill_gp, use_skill_gp
1.1.0
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2026-06-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
all_check_groups, checks_by_group, default_checks, describe_check, describe_check_groups, tidyverse_checks
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-06-04
1.0.5
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2024-06-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-04-20
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.4
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2022-08-30 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-07-13
1.0.3
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2022-07-13 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-04-27
check issues were not corrected in time length > 1 in && or ||
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.2
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2018-05-02
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-02
Total releases: 6 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Download size: 175 KB

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citation("goodpractice")

Format

Padgham, M., Ascent Digital Services UK Limited, Alexander, H., Csardi, G., Frick, H., Jones, O., Marks, K., Mowinckel, A. M., Scheipl, F., Simmons, A., & de Bortoli, D. (2026). goodpractice: Advice on R Package Building (Version 1.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.goodpractice

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for goodpractice version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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