R Observatory: Metrics for libipldr version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

libipldr

0.1.1Package record

R Bindings to the 'Rust' 'IPLD' Library

0packages dependsuggested by 1

1.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Johannes B. GruberCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides R bindings to decode DAG-CBOR (Directed Acyclic Graph Concise Binary Object Representation) encoded data, CIDs (Content Identifiers), and CAR (Content Addressable aRchive) files using the 'Rust' 'IPLD' (InterPlanetary Linked Data) library https://github.com/ipld/libipld. This is especially useful for working with data from 'IPFS' (InterPlanetary File System) and 'AtProto' (Bluesky) applications.

Changes in 0.1.1

CRAN resubmission addressing reviewer feedback:
Software names ('Rust', 'IPLD', 'IPFS', 'AtProto') now quoted in Title and Description.
Acronyms DAG-CBOR, IPLD, and IPFS expanded in Description.
Added upstream library reference to Description.
Replaced \dontrun{} with \donttest{} in decode_car() example.
Added inst/extdata/sample.car for use in the decode_car() example.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("libipldr", 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("JBGruber/libipldr")

Development version from JBGruber/libipldr. 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-libipldr

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-libipldr

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-30
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-29
OK7 OK2026-05-28

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 93 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
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%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,304 · ~4/day · ~119/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25330 days

70990 days

1.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on77 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

jbgruber/libipldr ↗Account: JBGruber

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

25Commits

2Commit identities

25 commits · Last activity 2026-08-18 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 54
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 17

Stars over time

2026-07-07 · 02026-08-09 · 1

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/jbgruber/libipldr 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

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat rextendr httr2 jsonlite spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

atrrr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Johannes B. Gruber

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2026)

Ilya Siamionau

Contributor

Author of the original python-libipld Rust implementation

Releases (1)

0.1.1Latest
record
2026-05-27 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-27
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Download size: 3.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("libipldr")

Format

Gruber, J. B., & Siamionau, I. (2026). libipldr: R Bindings to the 'Rust' 'IPLD' Library (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.libipldr

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 libipldr version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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