R Observatory: Metrics for mortar version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mortar

0.4.0

Standardize Data Science Workflows

0packages depend

1.2Kdownloads / year

79.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Anthony MartinezFirst published 2026-04-291 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.63

79.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-29
5 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 325 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,522 · ~3/day · ~101/mo

Releases R versions

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85590 days

1.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ doi-usgs/mortar

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

143Commits

4Contributors

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

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/doi-usgs/mortar on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsGitLab CI

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Automation and maintenance (1)

Renovate

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Anthony Martinez

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Anthony Martinez

Author, Maintainer

Joseph Zemmels

Author

Contributors (1)

Jesse Ross

Contributor

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.4.0Latest
2026-04-29 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-29
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: CC0
Download size: 39 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mortar version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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