R Observatory: Metrics for hutils version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hutils

2.0.0Package record

Miscellaneous R Functions and Aliases

8packages depend

32.1Kdownloads / year

96.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hugh ParsonageCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides utility functions for, and drawing on, the 'data.table' package. The package also collates useful miscellaneous functions extending base R not available elsewhere. The name is a portmanteau of 'utils' and the author.

Changes in 2.0.0

dplyr::if_else is no longer slower than if_else.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("hutils", 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("hughparsonage/hutils")

Development version from hughparsonage/hutils. 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-hutils

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-hutils

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-hutils

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: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 2.0.0

READMEYes · 191 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 53includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%27 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 57%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 76%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

hutils HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

32.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,020 · ~88/day · ~2.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3K30 days

4.4K90 days

32.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on189 r2u4 autocran86 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

hughparsonage/hutils ↗Account: HughParsonage

10Stars

3Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

441Commits

3Commit identities

441 commits · Last activity 2026-03-30 · Default branch at 2.0.1, ahead of CRAN 2.0.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/hughparsonage/hutils on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-30

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing hutils adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 6.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, magrittr 275 KB, fastmatch 18 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (6)

data.table magrittrstatsutilsfastmatchgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (21)

testthatdatasetsdesc dplyr digest fst Hmisc hutilscpp microbenchmark knitr rmarkdown nycflights13 geosphere ggplot2 readr rcheology rstudioapi survey tibble tidyr withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

0indirect

Imports 8

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

readabs grattan grattanInflators hutilscpp TeXCheckR fy heims healthyAddress

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Hugh Parsonage

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2017)

Michael Frasco

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Ben Hamner

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Releases (15)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.0.0Latest
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2026-01-18 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.8.1
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2022-04-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
fst_columns, fst_nrow, seq_nrow
1.7.1
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2021-07-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.6.0
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2020-11-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
bearing, compass2bearing, easterly_component, goto_pattern_in, northerly_component, prohibit_unequal_length_vectors, prohibit_vector_recycling, prohibit_vector_recycling.MAXLENGTH
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.5.1
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2019-10-05 · diff ↗
1.5.0
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2019-05-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
provide.file
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.4.0
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2019-03-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
%<->%, Mode, average_bearing, average_bearing_n, dir2, replace_pattern_in, samp
1.3.0
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2018-11-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
longest_prefix, longest_suffix, mutate_ntile, trim_common_affixes, weighted_ntile, weighted_quantile

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1.2.0
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2018-08-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
RQ, Switch, XOR, ahull, all_same_sign, any_grepl, drop_grep, isAttached, mean_na, selector
1.1.0
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2018-05-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
auc, dev_copy2a4, select_grep
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.0
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2018-03-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
print_transpose_data.table

added 1 export
%notchin%
0.10.0
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2018-01-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
%implies%, drop_constant_cols, generate_LaTeX_manual, implies, pow, print_transpose_data.table, report_error
0.9.0
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2017-10-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
find_pattern_in
0.8.0
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2017-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 15 exports
%ein%, %enotin%, AND, NEITHER, NOR, OR, coalesce, drop_colr, if_else, neither, ngrep, nor, select_which, set_colsuborder, weight2rows
0.1.2
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2017-07-09
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-09
Total releases: 15 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 123 KB

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Format

Parsonage, H., Frasco, M., & Hamner, B. (2026). hutils: Miscellaneous R Functions and Aliases (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hutils

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hutils version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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