R Observatory: Metrics for interface version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

interface

0.1.2Package record

Runtime Type System

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dereck MezquitaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a runtime type system, allowing users to define and implement interfaces, enums, typed data.frame/data.table, as well as typed functions. This package enables stricter type checking and validation, improving code structure, robustness and reliability.

Install

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

install.packages("interface", 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("dereckmezquita/interface")

Development version from dereckmezquita/interface. 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-interface

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-interface

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-interface

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: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 326 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 0.1.2Citation fileYes · software entry only

Help pages: 20
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Donate HTML
Introduction to interface HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,399 · ~6/day · ~183/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19230 days

55990 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

dereckmezquita/interface ↗Account: dereckmezquita

25Stars

0Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

94Commits

1Commit identities

data-validationinterfacerpackagestypes

94 commits · Last activity 2024-09-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.3, ahead of CRAN 0.1.2 (checked 2026-10-22) · Discussions: 1 post

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 77%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 22
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-24 · 242026-07-07 · 25

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dereckmezquita/interface on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

PR template

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-09-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

renv

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat knitr rmarkdown box rcmdcheck data.table

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Dereck Mezquita

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2024)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.2Latest
record
2024-09-10 · current release
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-09-10
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 36 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("interface")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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 interface version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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