R Observatory: Metrics for makepipe version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

makepipe

0.2.2Package record

Pipeline Tools Inspired by 'GNU Make'

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

86.3%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kinto BehrCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A suite of tools for transforming an existing workflow into a self-documenting pipeline with very minimal upfront costs. Segments of the pipeline are specified in much the same way a 'Make' rule is, by declaring an executable recipe (which might be an R script), along with the corresponding targets and dependencies. When the entire pipeline is run through, only those recipes that need to be executed will be. Meanwhile, execution metadata is captured behind the scenes for later inspection.

Changes in 0.2.2

Added a build argument to make_* family to allow a Pipeline to be built without being executed. Once the pipeline has been fully 'registered' it can be built via

```r

p <- get_pipeline()

p$build()

```

Added a touch() method to Pipeline which updates the file modification times of all targets to the current time. This is useful when you know your targets are all up-to-date but makepipe doesn't, for example after a negligible change was made to your source code. The new build argument described above comes in handy here: setting build=FALSE you can construct the make 'graph' without executing it, then call

```r

p <- get_pipeline()

p$touch()

```

This will update the times for all the targets in the pipeline so that when you call p$build() nothing will happen (unless one of your targets is set to force=TRUE).

Upgraded the internal webshot dependency to webshot2, which doesn't depend on the unmaintained PhantomJS.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("makepipe", 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("kinto-b/makepipe")

Development version from kinto-b/makepipe. 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-makepipe

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-makepipe

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-makepipe

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘cli’ ‘nomnoml’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

READMEYes · 335 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12 (5 internal)
Examples that run: 0%7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 64%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 45%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to makepipe HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,304 · ~10/day · ~291/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29230 days

85790 days

3.5K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

kinto-b/makepipe ↗Account: kinto-b

35Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

83Commits

1Commit identities

rpipelinemake

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 83 commits · Last activity 2025-01-05 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 15
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-15 · 332026-07-07 · 35

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kinto-b/makepipe on 2026-10-18.

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 (3)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-01-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

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 v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing makepipe adds 54 packages (28 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

cli nomnoml R6utilsroxygen2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitr covr testthat withr rmarkdown webshot2 visNetwork

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)

Kinto Behr

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.2Latest
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2025-01-07 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.1
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2022-12-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
make_with_dir, make_with_roxy
0.2.0
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2022-05-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
reset_pipeline
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.0
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2021-11-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
Segment, SegmentRecipe, SegmentSource
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0.0.4
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2021-10-29
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-10-29
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 164 KB

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citation("makepipe")

Format

Behr, K. (2025). makepipe: Pipeline Tools Inspired by 'GNU Make' (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.makepipe

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for makepipe version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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