R Observatory: Metrics for mailmerge version 0.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mailmerge

0.2.5Package record

Mail Merge Using R Markdown Documents and 'gmailr'

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

75.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrie de VriesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Perform a mail merge (mass email) using the message defined in markdown, the recipients in a 'csv' file, and gmail as the mailing engine. With this package you can parse markdown documents as the body of email, and the 'yaml' header to specify the subject line of the email. Any '{}' braces in the email will be encoded with 'glue::glue()'. You can preview the email in the RStudio viewer pane, and send (draft) email using 'gmailr'.

Changes in 0.2.5

Update documentation to conform to HTML5

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mailmerge", 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("andrie/mailmerge")

Development version from andrie/mailmerge. 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-mailmerge

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-mailmerge

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-mailmerge

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-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 0.2.5

READMEYes · 277 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12 (7 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 29%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to mailmerge HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,337 · ~9/day · ~268/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30230 days

86990 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on71 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

andrie/mailmerge ↗Account: andrie

44Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

114Commits

2Commit identities

rstatsr-packagemailmerge

114 commits · Last activity 2024-03-31

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-07-11 · 442026-07-07 · 44

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/andrie/mailmerge on 2026-10-22.

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 2024-03-31 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-03-31

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mailmerge adds 56 packages (30 with compiled code, 35 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3

Imports (13)

commonmark gmailr rstudioapi googledrive rmarkdown glue magrittr purrrutilsfs lifecycle shiny miniUI

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

spelling withr covr knitr testthat here mockery readr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Andrie de Vries

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2021)

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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2022-08-14 · current release · diff ↗
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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

Package metadata

First published: 2021-04-12
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3
Download size: 280 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mailmerge")

Format

de Vries, A. (2022). mailmerge: Mail Merge Using R Markdown Documents and 'gmailr' (Version 0.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mailmerge

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 mailmerge version 0.2.5 [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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