R Observatory: Metrics for goodpractice version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

goodpractice

1.1.0

Advice on R Package Building

1packages depend

16.7Kdownloads / year

98.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark PadghamFirst published 2018-05-025 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 10.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.04

98.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

19

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
OK2026-06-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-09
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,058 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

16.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,321 · ~46/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

91130 days

3.3K90 days

16.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on307 r2u12 autocran1.5K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci-review-tools/goodpractice

480Stars

36Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

641Commits

24Contributors

641 commits · Last activity 2026-07-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 4702026-07-11 · 480

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci-review-tools/goodpractice on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Show all practices

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-02-13

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-02-13

Evidence

claude: on 2026-02-13 · evidence B, D
agents-md: on 2026-02-17 · evidence D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

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

maidr

Code & Tests

People & History

People (11)

Maintainer (1)

Mark Padgham

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.5

Authors (8)

Mark Padgham

Author, Maintainer · 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

Karina Marks

Author · added in 1.0.3

Athanasia Mo Mowinckel

Author · added in 1.1.0

Daniel de Bortoli

Author · added in 1.0.3

Contributors (2)

Fabian Scheipl

Contributor · added in 1.0.3

Ana Simmons

Contributor · added in 1.0.3

Copyright holders (1)

Ascent Digital Services UK Limited

Copyright holder · added in 1.0.3

Package Timeline

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

1.1.0Latest
2026-06-05 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.5
2024-06-04 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-06-04
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-04-20
issues were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.4
2022-08-30 · diff ↗
1.0.3
2022-07-13 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-07-13
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
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Show 2 earlier events

1.0.2
2018-05-02
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-02
Total releases: 5 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 79 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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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 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.goodpractice

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for goodpractice version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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