R Observatory: Metrics for lintr version 3.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lintr

3.4.0

A 'Linter' for R Code

179packages depend

806.1Kdownloads / year

98.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael ChiricoFirst published 2014-12-0119 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Checks adherence to a given style, syntax errors and possible semantic issues. Supports on the fly checking of R code edited with 'RStudio IDE', 'Emacs', 'Vim', 'Sublime Text', 'Atom' and 'Visual Studio Code'.

Install

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

install.packages("lintr", 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("r-lib/lintr")

Development version from r-lib/lintr. 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-lintr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-lintr

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-lintr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.36

98.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

11

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-03
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 209 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 8%
References docs: 1%

Downloads

806.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #430 · ~2.2K/day · ~67.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

59.8K30 days

200.9K90 days

806.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on26.7K r2u97 autocran67.8K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/lintr

1,293Stars

203Forks

291Open issues

10Open PRs

17Releases

2,183Commits

110Contributors

linterr

2,183 commits · Last activity 2026-08-21 · +0.4% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-09 · 1,2382026-08-21 · 1,293

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/lintr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dev Container

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Show all practices

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

.covrignore

Governance and community (1)

Support guide

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (11)

clicodetoolsdigest glue knitr rexstatsutilsxfun xml2 xmlparsedata

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

bookdown cyclocomp jsonlite patrick rlang rmarkdown rstudioapi testthat tibble tufte withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Chirico

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.0.0

Authors (9)

Michael Chirico

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.0.0

Florent Angly

Author · added in 2.0.0

Emmanuel Ferdman

Author · added in 3.4.0

Hugo Gruson

Author · added in 3.3.0-1

Jim Hester

Author

Russ Hyde

Author · added in 2.0.1

Indrajeet Patil

Author · added in 3.0.1

Kun Ren

Author · added in 3.0.0

Alexander Rosenstock

Author · added in 3.0.0

Package Timeline

19 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

3.4.0Latest
2026-07-16 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.3.0-1
2025-11-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
3.2.0
2025-02-12 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.1.2
2024-03-25 · diff ↗
3.1.1
2023-11-07 · diff ↗
3.1.0
2023-07-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
3.0.2
2022-10-19 · diff ↗
3.0.1
2022-09-13 · diff ↗
3.0.0
2022-06-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Show 16 earlier events

2.0.1
2020-02-19 · diff ↗
2.0.0
2019-10-01 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.3
2018-11-08 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.2
2017-11-08 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2017-08-10 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0.0
2016-04-16 · diff ↗
0.3.3
2015-09-15 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2015-09-08 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2015-09-03 · diff ↗
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.2.0
2014-12-01
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-12-01
Total releases: 19 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("lintr")

The authors publish a CITATION.cff, so they have said how they want this cited. Run citation() and use what it gives you.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for lintr version 3.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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