R Observatory: Metrics for icecream version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

icecream

0.2.2Package record

Print Debugging Made Sweeter

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

77.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lewin Appleton-FoxCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides user-friendly and configurable print debugging via a single function, ic(). Wrap an expression in ic() to print the expression, its value and (where available) its source location. Debugging output can be toggled globally without modifying code.

Changes in 0.2.2

Allow ic() to handle inputs that aren't valid glue() code, e.g. ic("{") (#26)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("icecream", 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("lewinfox/icecream")

Development version from lewinfox/icecream. 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-icecream

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-icecream

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-icecream

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: 53 s · r-oldrel-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 0.2.2

READMEYes · 575 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 9 (6 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,973 · ~9/day · ~264/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30830 days

77790 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on68 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

lewinfox/icecream ↗Account: lewinfox

58Stars

5Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

169Commits

5Commit identities

rdebugging

169 commits · Last activity 2024-02-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 37
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-21 · 562026-08-12 · 58

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/lewinfox/icecream on 2026-10-21.

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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-02-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-02-18

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing icecream adds 9 packages (7 with compiled code, 3.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

cli glue pillar purrr rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

checkmate testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Lewin Appleton-Fox

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2021)

Dominik Rafacz

Author

Ben Stiles

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
0.2.2Latest
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2024-02-18 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2023-09-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.0
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2021-10-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
with_ic_disable, with_ic_enable
0.1.1
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2021-05-31
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-31
Total releases: 4 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 14 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("icecream")

Format

Appleton-Fox, L., Rafacz, D., & Stiles, B. (2024). icecream: Print Debugging Made Sweeter (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.icecream

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 icecream version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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