lubridate

Overview

About

Maintained by Vitalie SpinuFirst published 2010-08-1533 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions to work with date-times and time-spans: fast and user friendly parsing of date-time data, extraction and updating of components of a date-time (years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds), algebraic manipulation on date-time and time-span objects. The 'lubridate' package has a consistent and memorable syntax that makes working with dates easy and fun.

Install

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

install.packages("lubridate", 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("tidyverse/lubridate")

Development version from tidyverse/lubridate. 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-lubridate

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-lubridate

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-lubridate

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

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.10

76.2%

Coverage · measured lines

97%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 281 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 98%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 87%
References docs: 8%

Downloads

10.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #108 · ~27.8K/day · ~846.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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580.5K30 days

2M90 days

10.2M1 year

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Also on151.9K r2u48 autocran913.4K conda_forge5.3K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ tidyverse/lubridate

800Stars

217Forks

107Open issues

9Open PRs

17Releases

1,912Commits

114Contributors

rdate-timedate

1,912 commits · Last activity 2026-06-15 · +0.4% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-02 · 7602026-07-20 · 800

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/tidyverse/lubridate on 2026-08-02.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

revdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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RStudio project

Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

Governance and community (3)

Issue templatesCODEOWNERSSupport guide

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.2methods

Imports (2)

generics timechange

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr knitr rmarkdown testthat vctrs

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1,053direct

733indirect

and 1,005 more packages.

People & History

People (11)

Maintainer (1)

Vitalie Spinu

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.3.0

Authors (3)

Vitalie Spinu

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.3.0

Garrett Grolemund

Author

Hadley Wickham

Author

Contributors (8)

Jonathan Boiser

Contributor · added in 1.5.0

Imanuel Costigan

Contributor · added in 1.7.9

Joseph Larmarange

Contributor · added in 1.5.0

Jason Law

Contributor · added in 1.5.0

Chel Hee Lee

Contributor · added in 1.3.0

Ian Lyttle

Contributor · added in 1.3.2

Doug Mitarotonda

Contributor · added in 1.5.0

Davis Vaughan

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

Listed in earlier versions (5)

Winston Chang

no longer listed · 1.3.0 to 1.3.3

Imanuel Constigan

no longer listed · 1.3.0 to 1.7.8

Richard Cotton

no longer listed · 1.3.0 to 1.3.3

Jan Lyttle

no longer listed · 1.5.0 to 1.5.6

Google Inc.

no longer listed · 1.7.9.2 to 1.8.0

Package Timeline

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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2010-08-15
Total releases: 33 / 16 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2
Bundled data: 136 KB / 1 file
Download size: 420 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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