R Observatory: Metrics for lumberjack version 1.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lumberjack

1.3.1Package record

Track Changes in Data

1packages dependsuggested by 1

13.2Kdownloads / year

87.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark van der LooCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A framework that allows for easy logging of changes in data. Main features: start tracking changes by adding a single line of code to an existing script. Track changes in multiple datasets, using multiple loggers. Add custom-built loggers or use loggers offered by other packages. doi:10.18637/jss.v098.i01.

Changes in 1.3.1

added no logger: not-logging logger that just presents the interface (conivenience for testing, and for integration with 'dcmodify')

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("lumberjack", 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("markvanderloo/lumberjack")

Development version from markvanderloo/lumberjack. 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-lumberjack

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-lumberjack

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-lumberjack

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: 1.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.1

READMEYes · 207 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 90%9 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 91%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 40%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

13.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,462 · ~36/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47930 days

1.3K90 days

13.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on121 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

markvanderloo/lumberjack ↗Account: markvanderloo

72Stars

4Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

139Commits

2Commit identities

rloggingdaffdatasciencereproducible-research

139 commits · Last activity 2024-06-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 7

Stars over time

2025-09-17 · 682026-08-08 · 72

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/markvanderloo/lumberjack on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing lumberjack adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 63 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: R6 63 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (2)

utilsR6

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

dcmodify

Suggests, most downloaded first

validate

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Mark van der Loo

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Floris Ruijter

Contributor · added in 1.3.1

Releases (11)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.1Latest
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2023-03-29 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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no_log
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-01-20 · diff ↗
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2020-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
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1.0.3
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2019-08-28 · diff ↗
1.0.2
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2019-08-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
run_file
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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0.3.0
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2018-07-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
expression_logger
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-08-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-14
Total releases: 11 / 9 yrs
License: EUPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 673 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("lumberjack")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v098.i01.

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 lumberjack version 1.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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