R Observatory: Metrics for locatexec version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

locatexec

0.2.1Package record

Detection and Localization of Executable Files

1packages depend

86Kdownloads / year

20.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

A set of functions to locate some programs available on the user machine. It can locate 'Node.js', 'npm', 'LibreOffice', 'Microsoft Word', 'Microsoft PowerPoint', 'Microsoft Excel', 'Python', 'pip', 'Mozilla Firefox', 'Google Chrome', 'Air' and 'Pandoc'. The user can test the availability of a program, optionally with a required version, and call it with the functions system2() or system(). This allows the use of a single function to retrieve the path to a program regardless of the operating system and its configuration.

Changes in 0.2.1

On Linux, executables are now run without the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set by R to read their version. R prepends its own library directories to this variable and 'LibreOffice' was then failing ("libreglo.so: cannot open shared object file") or aborting, so that it was not detected.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("locatexec", 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("ardata-fr/locatexec")

Development version from ardata-fr/locatexec. 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-locatexec

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-locatexec

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-locatexec

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: 59 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-26
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 308 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18
Examples that run: 100%18 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

86K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,492 · ~236/day · ~7.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.5K30 days

16.8K90 days

86K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on142 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ardata-fr/locatexec ↗Organization: ardata-fr

11Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

34Commits

2Commit identities

34 commits · Last activity 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-04-12 · 112026-07-07 · 11

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/ardata-fr/locatexec on 2026-10-21.

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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-21

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-25
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 5.52 commits · Oct 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

doconv

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

David Gohel

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

ArData

Copyright holder

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.1Latest
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2026-10-21 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2026-05-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
air_exec, pandoc_exec
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.1
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2021-05-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.0
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2021-03-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-18
Total releases: 4 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 15 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("locatexec")

Format

Gohel, D., & ArData. (2026). locatexec: Detection and Localization of Executable Files (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.locatexec

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 locatexec version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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