R Observatory: Metrics for lang version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lang

0.1.2Package record

Translates R Help Documentation using Large Language Models

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

91.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Edgar RuizCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Translates R help documentation on the fly by using a Large Language model of your choice. If you are using 'RStudio' or 'Positron' the translated help will appear in the help pane.

Changes in 0.1.2

Bug fixes

When the input is 10 words or fewer, the context summary is now omitted from the translation prompt. Local LLMs can get confused by a context summary that is much longer than the field being translated, causing them to paraphrase the context instead of translating the input.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("lang", 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("mlverse/lang")

Development version from mlverse/lang. 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-lang

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-lang

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-lang

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: 5.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-27

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-30
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 1,078 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · Quarto

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,876 · ~7/day · ~226/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33930 days

77190 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mlverse/lang ↗Organization: mlverse

32Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

288Commits

1Commit identities

llmrtranslations

288 commits · Last activity 2026-06-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 322026-07-07 · 32

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mlverse/lang on 2026-10-18.

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 (4)

README.RmdQuarto project

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-28
Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/skills
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing lang adds 38 packages (22 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: promises 3.1 MB, ellmer 3.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (10)

callr cli fs glue lifecycle mall rlang rstudioapitoolswithr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

ellmer 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)

Edgar Ruiz

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.1.1

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.1.2Latest
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2026-06-11 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2026-06-05 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0
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2025-10-30
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-10-30
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 1.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("lang")

Format

Ruiz, E., & Posit Software, PBC. (2026). lang: Translates R Help Documentation using Large Language Models (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.lang

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 lang version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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