R Observatory: Metrics for makeit version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

makeit

1.0.2Package record

Run R Scripts if Needed

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Arni MagnussonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Automation tool to run R scripts if needed, based on last modified time. It comes with no package dependencies, organizational overhead, or structural requirements. In short: run an R script if underlying files have changed, otherwise do nothing.

Changes in 1.0.2

Improvements in vignette.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("makeit", 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("arni-magnusson/makeit")

Development version from arni-magnusson/makeit. 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-makeit

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-makeit

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-makeit

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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 0%1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

Vignettes (1)

Getting started with the `makeit` package

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,439 · ~8/day · ~241/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28230 days

73390 days

2.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on88 r2u8 autocran40 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

arni-magnusson/makeit ↗Account: arni-magnusson

5Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

72Commits

1Commit identities

72 commits · Last activity 2025-03-26

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-04-04 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/arni-magnusson/makeit on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

dplyr ggplot2 knitr readr rmarkdown

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)

Arni Magnusson

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2023)

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-03-28
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 91 KB

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Reproducible Research

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("makeit")

Format

Magnusson, A. (2025). makeit: Run R Scripts if Needed (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.makeit

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 makeit version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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