R Observatory: Metrics for import version 1.3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

import

1.3.4

An Import Mechanism for R

10packages depend

74.3Kdownloads / year

81.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Magnus Thor TorfasonFirst published 2015-03-109 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Alternative mechanism for importing objects from packages and R modules. The syntax allows for importing multiple objects with a single command in an expressive way. The import package bridges some of the gap between using library (or require) and direct (single-object) imports. Furthermore the imported objects are not placed in the current environment.

Install

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

install.packages("import", 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("rticulate/import")

Development version from rticulate/import. 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-import

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-import

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-import

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.62

81.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · staticpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

74.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,682 · ~203/day · ~6.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.1K30 days

14K90 days

74.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on275 r2u14 autocran5.1K conda_forge91 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ rticulate/import

231Stars

15Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

128Commits

11Contributors

rcran

128 commits · Last activity 2025-10-20

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rticulate/import on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown magrittr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

0indirect

RALSA RadialVisGadgets funspotr radiant radiant.basics radiant.data radiant.design radiant.model radiant.multivariate wrswoR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Magnus Thor Torfason

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.0

Authors (2)

Magnus Thor Torfason

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.0

Stefan Milton Bache

Author

Package Timeline

9 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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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
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1.3.1
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.0
2022-05-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.0
2020-09-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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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
1.1.0
2015-06-22 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
1.0.2
2015-04-10 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2015-03-10
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-03-10
Total releases: 9 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 81 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("import")

Format

Torfason, M. T., & Bache, S. M. (2025). import: An Import Mechanism for R (Version 1.3.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.import

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for import version 1.3.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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