R Observatory: Metrics for ipkg version 1.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ipkg

1.1.3Package record

Install R Packages or Download File from GitHub via the Proxy Site

0packages depend

4.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Xinyuan ChuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

When you want to install R package or download file from GitHub, but you can't access GitHub, this package helps you install R packages or download file from GitHub via the proxy website https://gh-proxy.com/ or https://ghfast.top/, which is in real-time sync with GitHub.

Install

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

install.packages("ipkg", 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("chuxinyuan/ipkg")

Development version from chuxinyuan/ipkg. 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-ipkg

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-ipkg

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-ipkg

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: 45 s · r-devel-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 1.1.3

READMEYes · 99 wordsVignettesNoNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 0%3 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 33%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,671 · ~12/day · ~355/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

66430 days

1.5K90 days

4.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on63 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

chuxinyuan/ipkg ↗Account: chuxinyuan

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

21Commits

2Commit identities

21 commits · Last activity 2025-04-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-02-02 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/chuxinyuan/ipkg on 2026-10-21.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ipkg adds 9 packages (6 with compiled code, 3.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

remotes httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

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)

Xinyuan Chu

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.4 (2022)

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.3Latest
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2025-04-11 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.2
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2025-02-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.1
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2023-11-08 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2023-11-02 · diff ↗
1.0.9
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2023-10-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
conn_test
1.0.8
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2023-09-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
download_file
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.5
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2022-05-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.4
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2022-01-17
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-01-17
Total releases: 8 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 4.1 KB

Appears in task views

Package Development and Maintenance

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ipkg")

Format

Chu, X. (2025). ipkg: Install R Packages or Download File from GitHub via the Proxy Site (Version 1.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ipkg

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 ipkg version 1.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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