R Observatory: Metrics for hellno version 0.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hellno

0.0.1

Providing 'stringsAsFactors=FALSE' Variants of 'data.frame()' and 'as.data.frame()'

1packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Peter MeissnerFirst published 2015-12-141 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Base R's default setting for 'stringsAsFactors' within 'data.frame()' and 'as.data.frame()' is supposedly the most often complained about piece of code in the R infrastructure. The 'hellno' package provides an explicit solution without changing R itself or having to mess around with options. It tries to solve this problem by providing alternative 'data.frame()' and 'as.data.frame()' functions that are in fact simple wrappers around base R's 'data.frame()' and 'as.data.frame()' with 'stringsAsFactors' option set to 'HELLNO' ( which in turn equals FALSE ) by default.

Install

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

install.packages("hellno", 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("petermeissner/hellno")

Development version from petermeissner/hellno. 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-hellno

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-hellno

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-hellno

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 45 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.68

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-08
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-07
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
9 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 388 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,626 · ~9/day · ~272/mo

Releases R versions

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32430 days

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3.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ petermeissner/hellno

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0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

47Commits

2Contributors

47 commits · Last activity 2018-08-23

Repository practices

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

Checks run against github.com/petermeissner/hellno on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

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1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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Suggests (1)

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Peter Meissner

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.1Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-14
Total releases: 1 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 3.7 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hellno version 0.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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