R Observatory: Metrics for littler version 0.3.23

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

littler

0.3.23

R at the Command-Line via 'r'

1packages depend

43.1Kdownloads / year

0.9%test coverage

8/8checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelFirst published 2015-10-2924 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A scripting and command-line front-end is provided by 'r' (aka 'littler') as a lightweight binary wrapper around the GNU R language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. While R can be used in batch mode, the r binary adds full support for both 'shebang'-style scripting (i.e. using a hash-mark-exclamation-path expression as the first line in scripts) as well as command-line use in standard Unix pipelines. In other words, r provides the R language without the environment.

Install

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

install.packages("littler", 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("eddelbuettel/littler")

Development version from eddelbuettel/littler. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-littler

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

8OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.39

0.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
8 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
7 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-08
8 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-05-07
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
9 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 357 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

43.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,451 · ~118/day · ~3.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

9.4K30 days

19.2K90 days

43.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on6.4K conda_forge14 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ eddelbuettel/littler

335Stars

51Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

28Releases

798Commits

21Contributors

rr-packagecranembeddedexampleslittler

License GPL-2.0 · 798 commits · Last activity 2026-08-16 · +0.6% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 3192026-07-31 · 335

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/littler on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

EditorConfig

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

simplermarkdown docopt rcmdcheck whoami

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

command

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

Jeff Horner

Author · added in 0.3.1

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Jeff Horner (2006-2008)

no longer listed · 0.3.19 to 0.3.20

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.23Latest
2026-04-12 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.22
2026-02-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.21
2025-03-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.20
2024-03-23 · diff ↗
0.3.19
2023-12-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.18
2023-03-26 · diff ↗
0.3.17
2022-10-29 · diff ↗
0.3.16
2022-08-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.15
2021-12-03 · diff ↗
0.3.14
2021-10-06 · diff ↗
0.3.13
2021-07-24 · diff ↗

Show 20 earlier events

R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.12
2020-10-07 · diff ↗
0.3.11
2020-06-26 · diff ↗
0.3.10
2020-06-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.9
2019-10-27 · diff ↗
0.3.8
2019-06-09 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.7
2019-03-15 · diff ↗
0.3.6
2019-01-26 · diff ↗
0.3.5
2018-10-04 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2018-08-24 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.3
2017-12-17 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.2
2017-02-15 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2016-08-07 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.3.0
2015-10-29
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-29
Total releases: 24 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 129 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("littler")

Format

Eddelbuettel, D., & Horner, J. (2026). littler: R at the Command-Line via 'r' (Version 0.3.23) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.littler

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for littler version 0.3.23 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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