R Observatory: Metrics for import version 1.3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

import

1.3.4Package record

An Import Mechanism for R

9packages dependsuggested by 1

67.5Kdownloads / year

81.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Magnus Thor TorfasonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 1.3.4

New function, import::what(), which lists objects available for import from a given package or module.
Documentation links now point both to release and development documentation.
Other minor documentation improvements.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 1.5 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 1.3.4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 2includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

The import package

How these are measured

Downloads

67.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,589 · ~185/day · ~5.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.5K30 days

14.5K90 days

67.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on274 r2u4 autocran5.4K conda_forge165 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rticulate/import ↗Organization: rticulate

232Stars

15Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

128Commits

11Commit identities

rcran

128 commits · Last activity 2025-10-20 · 0% stars, 30d · Discussions: 3 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 69
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 2312026-09-13 · 232

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rticulate/import on 2026-10-11.

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 2025-10-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing import adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown magrittr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

0indirect

Imports 9

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

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

Suggests, most downloaded first

wrswoR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Magnus Thor Torfason

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.0 (2020) · added in 1.2.0

Stefan Milton Bache

Author

Previously maintained by Stefan Milton Bache (1.0.1 to 1.1.0).

Releases (9)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-10-11 · 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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2024-01-21 · diff ↗
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2023-09-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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
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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
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2015-06-22 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
1.0.2
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2015-04-10 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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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

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 v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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