R Observatory: Metrics for libr version 1.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

libr

1.4.2Package record

Libraries, Data Dictionaries, and a Data Step for R

2packages dependsuggested by 2

10.2Kdownloads / year

88.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David BosakCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Contains a set of functions to create data libraries, generate data dictionaries, and simulate a data step. The libname() function will load a directory of data into a library in one line of code. The dictionary() function will generate data dictionaries for individual data frames or an entire library. And the datestep() function will perform row-by-row data processing.

Changes in 1.4.2

Fixed bug on libname() function sas7bdat engine where empty variables

were being imported as logical data type instead of character.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("libr", 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("dbosak01/libr")

Development version from dbosak01/libr. 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-libr

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-libr

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-libr

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: 4.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-22

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.2

READMEYes · 509 wordsVignettesYes · 8 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 30 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%25 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 84%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (8)

How these are measured

Downloads

10.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,124 · ~28/day · ~854/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

79630 days

2.1K90 days

10.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on514 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

dbosak01/libr ↗Account: dbosak01

27Stars

1Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

17Releases

293Commits

1Commit identities

293 commits · Last activity 2026-08-04

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 40
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-11-13 · 272026-07-07 · 27

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dbosak01/libr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Governance and community (2)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-04

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-04

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing libr adds 37 packages (21 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, readxl 2.1 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0common

Imports (10)

readr readxl haven openxlsx crayon dplyr tibbletoolsRcpp data.table

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (9)

testthat knitr rmarkdownforeignutilslogr covr fmtr nanoparquet

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

sassy defineR

Suggests, most downloaded first

reporter fmtr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

David Bosak

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.3.7

Brian Varney

Contributor · added in 1.3.7

Archytas Clinical Solutions

Copyright holder · added in 1.3.7

Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2020)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

David J. Bosak

no longer listed · 1.0.1 to 1.3.4

Releases (20)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.4.2Latest
record
2026-08-04 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.1
record
2026-04-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.3.9
record
2025-01-12 · diff ↗
1.3.8
record
2024-12-13 · diff ↗
1.3.7
record
2024-11-06 · diff ↗
1.3.4
record
2024-07-19 · diff ↗
1.3.3
record
2024-05-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3.2
record
2024-04-16 · diff ↗
1.3.1
record
2024-03-07 · diff ↗
1.3.0
record
2024-02-11 · diff ↗
1.2.9
record
2023-11-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.8
record
2022-09-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
delete, output

Show 11 earlier eventsHide 11 earlier events

1.2.5
record
2022-08-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
%eq%
1.2.3
record
2022-06-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
lib_export
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.2.2
record
2021-11-22 · diff ↗
1.2.1
record
2021-10-09 · diff ↗
1.2.0
record
2021-06-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
dsarray, dsattr
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.1.3
record
2021-02-08 · diff ↗
1.1.1
record
2021-01-06 · diff ↗
1.0.1
record
2020-12-09
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-12-09
Total releases: 20 / 6 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 781 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("libr")

Format

Bosak, D., Archytas Clinical Solutions, & Varney, B. (2026). libr: Libraries, Data Dictionaries, and a Data Step for R (Version 1.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.libr

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 libr version 1.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →