R Observatory: Metrics for lineager version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lineager

0.1.1Package record

Row-Level Data Provenance and Exclusion Tracking

0packages depend

598downloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ndoh PennCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides row-level data provenance tracking for analytical pipelines. Tags datasets with unique lineage identifiers that persist through filter, join, and derive operations. Requires documented reasons for every row exclusion, capturing who was removed, why, and at which pipeline stage. Variable derivations are registered as structured specifications linking output variables back to their source. Any row in any downstream dataset can be traced back to its origin via lg_trace(). Generates structured HTML provenance reports suitable for regulatory submissions, internal audit, or analytical documentation. General-purpose: works for clinical data, machine learning pipelines, financial modelling, epidemiology, or any workflow where row-level accountability matters. Optional features support pharmaceutical users including population flag definitions, source-to-analysis variable mapping, and Reviewer's Guide-aligned report output. Complements the 'regulog' package for tamper-evident session-level audit logging. For more details see https://reprostats.org/lineager/.

Changes in 0.1.1

CRAN resubmission:

Removed an unnecessary \dontrun{} around the lg_plot() example — it runs in under a second and doesn't require anything beyond the package's own dependencies.
Removed single quotes around the function name lg_trace() in the DESCRIPTION file's Description field (quotes are reserved for package names).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("lineager", 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("repro-stats/lineager")

Development version from repro-stats/lineager. 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-lineager

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-lineager

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-lineager

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK6 OK2026-08-21

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 459 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 20 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%15 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

598

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,050 · ~2/day · ~50/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27030 days

59890 days

5981 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on14 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

repro-stats/lineager ↗Organization: repro-stats

2Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

41Commits

1Commit identities

adamaudit-trailcdiscclinical-trialsdata-provenancepharmarr-package

41 commits · Last activity 2026-08-20 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-08-21 · 12026-09-06 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/repro-stats/lineager 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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-20

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing lineager adds 15 packages (9 with compiled code, 5.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

dplyr magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

admiral DiagrammeR ggplot2 haven knitr mockery rmarkdown testthat tibble

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)

Ndoh Penn

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2026)

Releases (1)

0.1.1Latest
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2026-08-20 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-20
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 321 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("lineager")

Format

Penn, N. (2026). lineager: Row-Level Data Provenance and Exclusion Tracking (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.lineager

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 lineager version 0.1.1 [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.

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