R Observatory: Metrics for jobqueue version 1.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

jobqueue

1.7.0Package record

Run Interruptible Code Asynchronously

0packages depend

6.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel P. SmithCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research

Takes an R expression and returns a job object with a $stop() method which can be called to terminate the background job. Also provides timeouts and other mechanisms for automatically terminating a background job. The result of the expression is available synchronously via $result or asynchronously with callbacks or through the 'promises' package framework.

Changes in 1.7.0

Separated jobqueue() constructor from underlying R6 classes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("jobqueue", 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("cmmr/jobqueue")

Development version from cmmr/jobqueue. 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-jobqueue

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-jobqueue

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-jobqueue

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: 1.9 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 1.7.0

READMEYes · 207 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.7.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check (under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,696 · ~17/day · ~510/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37030 days

99590 days

6.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on67 r2u10 autocran899 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

cmmr/jobqueue ↗Organization: cmmr

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

71Commits

1Commit identities

71 commits · Last activity 2025-08-07 · Default branch at 1.7.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.7.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-02-04 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/cmmr/jobqueue 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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-08-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-08-07

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing jobqueue adds 15 packages (9 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (10)

cli interprocess later magrittr parallelly promises ps R6 rlangutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

glue knitr rmarkdown 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 (2)

Daniel P. Smith

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2025)

Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.7.0Latest
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2025-05-24 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
`Job`, `Queue`, `Worker`

added 4 exports
`jobqueue`, `job_class`, `jobqueue_class`, `worker_class`
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.6.0
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2025-04-02 · diff ↗
1.5.1
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2025-02-28 · diff ↗
1.4.1
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2025-02-22 · diff ↗
1.3.1
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2025-02-15 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2025-02-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
`availableCores`
1.0.1
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2025-01-30
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-01-30
Total releases: 7 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 69 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("jobqueue")

Format

Smith, D. P., & Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research. (2025). jobqueue: Run Interruptible Code Asynchronously (Version 1.7.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.jobqueue

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for jobqueue version 1.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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