R Observatory: Metrics for mortar version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mortar

0.4.0Package record

Standardize Data Science Workflows

0packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

79.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Anthony MartinezCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Helper functions to standardizes common workflows in the USGS Data Science Community of Practice to produce more robust, reproducible pipelines. It contains helper functions to standardize (1) the organization of project repositories and (2) the creation ofpipelines from the 'targets' R Package (Landau et al. (2026) doi:10.5281/zenodo.18555866), using the DS CoP best practices. We draw upon community developed best practices as well as certain USGS-specific requirements. See Shrycock et al. (2023) doi:10.3133/tm7B2 for examples of these USGS requirements.

Changes in 0.4.0

Switch website build and hosting from GitLab to GitHub.
Update documentation in preparation for CRAN release
Remove default from home argument to comply with CRAN requirement that default arguments do not write files to a user's home filespace.
Add @returns tag for all functions to comply with CRAN requirements.
Beef up Description field in DESCRIPTION and add references to comply with CRAN requirements.
Remove unnecessary /dontrun tags to comply with CRAN requirements.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mortar", 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("DOI-USGS/mortar")

Development version from DOI-USGS/mortar. 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-mortar

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-mortar

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-mortar

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: 1.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK5 OK2026-04-29

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMEYes · 325 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 80%4 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

mortar HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,838 · ~5/day · ~154/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26130 days

77590 days

1.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on34 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

doi-usgs/mortar ↗Organization: DOI-USGS

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

143Commits

4Commit identities

143 commits · Last activity 2026-07-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-05-05 · 12026-07-07 · 2

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/doi-usgs/mortar on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsGitLab CI

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-28 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Automation and maintenance (1)

Renovate

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mortar adds 35 packages (17 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: pak 3.8 MB, fs 1.4 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

cli gert glue purrr R.utils rlang usethis

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

knitr renv rmarkdown stringr tarchetypes targets testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Anthony Martinez

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2026)

Joseph Zemmels

Author

Jesse Ross

Contributor

Releases (1)

0.4.0Latest
record
2026-04-28 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-28
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: CC0
Download size: 39 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mortar")

Format

Martinez, A., Ross, J., & Zemmels, J. (2026). mortar: Standardize Data Science Workflows (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mortar

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 mortar version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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