R Observatory: Metrics for humanFormat version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

humanFormat

1.2Package record

Human-Friendly Formatting Functions

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

82.4%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dustin SallingsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Format quantities of time or bytes into human-friendly strings.

Install

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

install.packages("humanFormat", 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("dustin/humanFormat")

Development version from dustin/humanFormat. 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-humanformat

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-humanFormat

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-humanFormat

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Dustin",
                    family = "Sallings",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "dustin@spy.net")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2

READMEYes · 5 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,102 · ~8/day · ~244/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26530 days

79890 days

2.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on91 r2u3 autocran126 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

dustin/humanformat ↗Account: dustin

5Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

34Commits

2Commit identities

34 commits · Last activity 2026-10-13

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 60%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 22

PRs over time

2026-07-14 · 12026-10-14 · 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dustin/humanformat on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on macOS

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing humanFormat adds 24 packages (11 with compiled code, 6.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, testthat 814 KB.

Depends (1)

testthat

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Dustin Sallings

Maintainer since 1.0 (2013)

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-11-25
Total releases: 2 / 13 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 4.6 KB

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Reproducible Research

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("humanFormat")

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for humanFormat version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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