R Observatory: Metrics for minioclient version 0.0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

minioclient

0.0.7Package record

Interface to the 'MinIO' Client

0packages dependsuggested by 2

3.8Kdownloads / year

80.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carl BoettigerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An R interface to the 'MinIO' Client. The 'MinIO' Client ('mc') provides a modern alternative to UNIX commands like 'ls', 'cat', 'cp', 'mirror', 'diff', 'find' etc. It supports 'filesystems' and Amazon "S3" compatible cloud storage service ("AWS" Signature v2 and v4). This package provides convenience functions for installing the 'MinIO' client and running any operations, as described in the official documentation, https://docs.min.io/aistor/reference/cli/. This package provides a flexible and high-performance alternative to 'aws.s3'.

Changes in 0.0.7

bug-fix: on Windows, mc() and mc_sql() looked for a binary named mc while install_mc() installs mc.exe, so the install check never matched and interactive sessions were prompted to (re)install on every call. The binary name is now resolved through a shared mc_bin() helper everywhere. Thanks to @mdsumner for the diagnosis (#16, #15).
bug-fix: mc_sql() returns S3-Select results with --json, but mc reports server-side errors as a JSON payload on stdout while exiting 0. mc_sql() now detects that payload and raises an R error instead of returning the error object as if it were query results.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("minioclient", 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("cboettig/minioclient")

Development version from cboettig/minioclient. 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-minioclient

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-minioclient

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-minioclient

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: 5.4 min · r-release-macos-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 0.0.7

READMEYes · 940 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.0.7Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 17
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check (15 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 6%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,158 · ~11/day · ~320/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44030 days

1.6K90 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.1K r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

cboettig/minioclient ↗Account: cboettig

25Stars

4Forks

3Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

82Commits

5Commit identities

82 commits · Last activity 2026-09-18 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.0.8, ahead of CRAN 0.0.7 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-07-10 · 252026-07-07 · 25

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cboettig/minioclient on 2026-10-11.

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 2026-09-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-18

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-09-16
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 52 commits · Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing minioclient adds 6 packages (5 with compiled code, 2.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, processx 191 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

fs gluetoolsutilsprocessx jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

spelling testthat curl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

duckdbfs gbifdb

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Carl Boettiger

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.2 (2023)

Markus Skyttner

Contributor · added in 0.0.4

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.0.7Latest
record
2026-07-26 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.6
record
2023-11-07 · diff ↗
0.0.5
record
2023-09-02 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-08-28
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-08-10
policy violation Checking creates and leaves behind '~/.mc' Downloads binary software
0.0.4
record
2023-08-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
mc_cat, mc_config_set, mc_head, mc_sql
0.0.2
record
2023-06-29
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-29
Total releases: 5 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 21 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("minioclient")

Format

Boettiger, C., & Skyttner, M. (2026). minioclient: Interface to the 'MinIO' Client (Version 0.0.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.minioclient

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for minioclient version 0.0.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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