R Observatory: Metrics for installr version 0.23.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

installr

0.23.4Package record

Using R to Install Stuff on Windows OS (Such As: R, 'Rtools', 'RStudio', 'Git', and More!)

0packages dependsuggested by 1

293.9Kdownloads / year

7.4%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tal GaliliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

R is great for installing software. Through the 'installr' package you can automate the updating of R (on Windows, using updateR()) and install new software. Software installation is initiated through a GUI (just run installr()), or through functions such as: install.Rtools(), install.pandoc(), install.git(), and many more. The updateR() command performs the following: finding the latest R version, downloading it, running the installer, deleting the installation file, copy and updating old packages to the new R installation.

Changes in 0.23.4

BUG FIXES:

Fix installr::install.Rtools(). props to and @arthurgailes and @burgerga.
Fix a bunch of nits for CRAN release

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("installr", 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("talgalili/installr")

Development version from talgalili/installr. 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-installr

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-installr

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-installr

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) ask.user.yn.question.Rd:44: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    44 | menu in the {utils} package, yesno in the {devtools} package.
       |             ^
checkRd: (-1) ask.user.yn.question.Rd:44: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    44 | menu in the {utils} package, yesno in the {devtools} package.
       |                                           ^
checkRd: (-1) install.FFmpeg.Rd:25: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    25 | This function is useful for saveVideo() in the {animation} package.
       |                                                ^
checkRd: (-1) install.SWFTools.Rd:27: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    27 | This function is useful for saveSWF() in the {animation} package.
       |                                              ^
checkRd: (-1) os.shutdown.Rd:25: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    25 | This function is a modified version of Yihui's shutdown function from the {fun} package.
       |                                                                           ^

NOTEfor non-standard things in the check directoryr-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Found the following files/directories:
  ‘pkgbuild’

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.23.4

READMEYes · 319 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.23.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 93includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 4%4 run in a plain check · 85 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 45%

How these are measured

Downloads

293.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #825 · ~805/day · ~24.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

17.4K30 days

54.8K90 days

293.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on100 r2u6 autocran580 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

talgalili/installr ↗Account: talgalili

280Stars

76Forks

27Open issues

3Open PRs

0Releases

490Commits

37Commit identities

490 commits · Last activity 2024-02-19 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 134
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-08-23 · 2742026-07-07 · 280

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/talgalili/installr on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductIssue templates

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-02-19

Lint, format, editor (1)

lintr

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-11-29
Pull request: opened by its own account

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing installr adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.14.0

Imports (2)

stringrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

curl XML devtools rjson data.table plyr ggplot2 sptoolspkgbuild testthat mockery R.utils

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

bsitar

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (29)

Tal Galili

Author, Maintainer since 0.8 (2013), Copyright holder

http://www.r-statistics.com

Dason

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

James

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

http://stackoverflow.com/users/269476/james

VitoshKa

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Tom Allard

Contributor · added in 0.18.0

Heuristic Andrew

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Berry Boessenkool

Contributor · added in 0.15.17

https://github.com/BerryBoessenkool

Gerhard Burger

Contributor · added in 0.23.2

https://github.com/burgerga

ChingChuan Chen

Contributor · added in 0.19.0

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Lyndon D'Arcy

Contributor · added in 0.23.2

https://github.com/logworthy

GERGELY DAROCZI

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Michael Friendly

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

http://datavis.ca/

Arthur Gailes

Contributor · added in 0.23.4

https://github.com/arthurgailes

Jonathan Godfrey

Contributor · added in 0.18.0

https://github.com/ajrgodfrey

G. Grothendieck

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Boris Hejblum

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Jonathan Hill

Contributor · added in 0.19.0

Takekatsu Hiramura

Contributor · added in 0.15.3

https://github.com/hiratake55

Adrian Hordyk

Contributor · added in 0.23.2

https://github.com/AdrianHordyk

Tyler Hunt

Contributor · added in 0.14.0

https://github.com/JackStat

Russ Hyde

Contributor · added in 0.23.2

Thomas Leeper

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

http://thomasleeper.com/

Dieter Menne

Contributor · added in 0.14.0

Gerhard Nachtmann

Contributor · added in 0.21.3

Chan-Yub Park

Contributor · added in 0.20.0

https://github.com/mrchypark

Kornelius Rohmeyer

Contributor · added in 0.14.0

http://algorithm-forge.com/techblog/

Barry Rowlingson

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Felix Schonbrodt

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Yihui Xie

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

http://yihui.name

Releases (25)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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ask.user.yn.question, install.7zip, install.Cygwin, install.FFmpeg, install.GraphicsMagick, install.ImageMagick, install.LaTeX2RTF, install.LyX, install.SWFTools, install.cygwin, install.ffmpeg, install.github, install.graphicsmagick, install.imagemagick, install.latex2rtf, install.lyx, install.miktex, install.notepadpp, install.npptor, install.rstudio, install.rtools, install.swftools, installr, is.RStudio, is.Rgui, os.hibernate, os.lock, os.manage, os.restart, os.shutdown and 2 more
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Package metadata

First published: 2013-03-05
Total releases: 25 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.0
Download size: 155 KB

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citation("installr")

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Galili, T., Dason, James, VitoshKa, Allard, T., Andrew, H., Boessenkool, B., Burger, G., Chen, C., D'Arcy, L., DAROCZI, G., Friendly, M., Gailes, A., Godfrey, J., Grothendieck, G., Hejblum, B., Hill, J., Hiramura, T., Hordyk, A., Hunt, T., Hyde, R., Leeper, T., Menne, D., Nachtmann, G., Park, C., Rohmeyer, K., Rowlingson, B., Schonbrodt, F., & Xie, Y. (2022). installr: Using R to Install Stuff on Windows OS (Such As: R, 'Rtools', 'RStudio', 'Git', and More!) (Version 0.23.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.installr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for installr version 0.23.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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