R Observatory: Metrics for gtools version 3.9.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gtools

3.9.5Package record

Various R Programming Tools

242packages dependsuggested by 32

3.5Mdownloads / year

22.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ben BolkerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Functions to assist in R programming, including: - assist in developing, updating, and maintaining R and R packages ('ask', 'checkRVersion', 'getDependencies', 'keywords', 'scat'), - calculate the logit and inverse logit transformations ('logit', 'inv.logit'), - test if a value is missing, empty or contains only NA and NULL values ('invalid'), - manipulate R's .Last function ('addLast'), - define macros ('defmacro'), - detect odd and even integers ('odd', 'even'), - convert strings containing non-ASCII characters (like single quotes) to plain ASCII ('ASCIIfy'), - perform a binary search ('binsearch'), - sort strings containing both numeric and character components ('mixedsort'), - create a factor variable from the quantiles of a continuous variable ('quantcut'), - enumerate permutations and combinations ('combinations', 'permutation'), - calculate and convert between fold-change and log-ratio ('foldchange', 'logratio2foldchange', 'foldchange2logratio'), - calculate probabilities and generate random numbers from Dirichlet distributions ('rdirichlet', 'ddirichlet'), - apply a function over adjacent subsets of a vector ('running'), - modify the TCP_NODELAY ('de-Nagle') flag for socket objects, - efficient 'rbind' of data frames, even if the column names don't match ('smartbind'), - generate significance stars from p-values ('stars.pval'), - convert characters to/from ASCII codes ('asc', 'chr'), - convert character vector to ASCII representation ('ASCIIfy'), - apply title capitalization rules to a character vector ('capwords').

Changes in 3.9.5

make checkRVersion() robust to internet failure/CRAN outages

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gtools", 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-gregmisc/gtools")

Development version from r-gregmisc/gtools. 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-gtools

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-gtools

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-gtools

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

Additional issues

M1-SAN

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-devel-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 3.9.5

READMEYes · 250 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 3.9.5Citation fileNo

Help pages: 37 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 91%29 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 14%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #176 · ~9.7K/day · ~295.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

271.6K30 days

959.7K90 days

3.5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on50.8K r2u232 autocran340.5K conda_forge1.9K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-gregmisc/gtools ↗Organization: r-gregmisc

28Stars

6Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

187Commits

8Commit identities

187 commits · Last activity 2025-07-08 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.9.6, ahead of CRAN 3.9.5 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 82
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2025-08-14 · 262026-07-07 · 28

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-gregmisc/gtools 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

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-07-08

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

Lint workflow

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gtools adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (3)

methodsstatsutils

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

car gplots knitr rstudioapi SGP taxize

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

242direct

485indirect

Depends 28 · Imports 214

Suggested by 32

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 194 more dependents and 32 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (11)

Ben Bolker

Author, Maintainer since 2.3.0 (2006) · added in 2.0.9

Thomas Lumley

Author · added in 2.0.9

Arni Magnusson

Author · added in 3.9.5

Steffen Moeller

Author · added in 3.9.5

Genei Ryodan

Author · added in 3.9.5

Bill Venables

Author · added in 3.9.5

Gregory R. Warnes

Author · added in 3.0.0

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor · added in 3.9.5

Mark Davis

Contributor · added in 3.9.5

Nitin Jain

Contributor · added in 3.9.5

Ian Wilson

Contributor · added in 3.9.5

Previously maintained by Nitin Jain (2.0.7 to 2.2.3).

Listed in earlier versions (20)

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as well as the Perl modules - "IO-stringy"

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- Spreadsheet::ParseExcel under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence .

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- Ben Bolker

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- Lodewijk Bonebakker

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- Bendix Carstensen

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- R. Gentleman

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- Kjetil Halvorsen

no longer listed · 2.0.7

- W. Huber - Nitin Jain

no longer listed · 2.0.7

Releases (35)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.9.5Latest
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2023-11-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
3.9.4
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2022-11-27 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-07-11
3.9.3
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2022-07-11 · diff ↗
orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2022-06-13
Includes protecting against unchecked use of CRAN and www.r-project.org
3.9.2.2
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2022-06-13 · diff ↗
3.9.2.1
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2022-05-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
3.9.2
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2021-06-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
addLast

added 3 exports
script_file, script_path, stat_mode
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
3.8.2
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2020-03-31 · diff ↗

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
3.8.1
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2018-06-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
baseOf, capwords, split_path
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2015-05-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
asc, assignEdgewise, chr, roman2int, unByteCode, unByteCodeAssign
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2015-04-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
loadedPackages, na.replace
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added 1 export
ASCIIfy
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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2014-02-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
getDependencies
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3.2.0
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2014-01-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
stars.pval
3.1.1
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2013-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
lastAdd
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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2009-05-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
keywords
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
2.5.0-1
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2009-02-19 · diff ↗
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
2.5.0
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2008-05-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
checkRVersion
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03
2.4.0
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2007-08-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ask, binsearch
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R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24
2.3.1
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2006-11-28 · diff ↗ ·
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capture, smartbind, sprint
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R 2.4.0 released · 2006-10-03
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R 2.3.0 released · 2006-04-24
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added 2 exports
addLast, setTCPNoDelay
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R 2.2.0 released · 2005-10-06
2.1.1
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2005-09-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
strmacro
2.1.0
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2005-09-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
assert
2.0.9
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2005-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
defmacro
2.0.7
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2005-05-30
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R 2.1.0 released · 2005-04-18

Package metadata

First published: 2005-05-30
Total releases: 35 / 21 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI · relicensed from LGPL-2.1 in 3.5.0
Bundled data: 125 KB / 2 files
Download size: 236 KB

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Cite this package

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citation("gtools")

Format

Bolker, B., Chamberlain, S., Davis, M., Jain, N., Lumley, T., Magnusson, A., Moeller, S., Ryodan, G., Venables, B., Warnes, G. R., & Wilson, I. (2023). gtools: Various R Programming Tools (Version 3.9.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gtools

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gtools version 3.9.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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