R Observatory: Metrics for newsmd version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

newsmd

0.5.1Package record

Creation of NEWS.md File

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

98.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jakob GeppCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Adding updates (version or bullet points) to the NEWS.md file.

Changes in 0.5.1

---

fix format for initial NEWS.md line

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("newsmd", 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("Dschaykib/newsmd")

Development version from Dschaykib/newsmd. 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-newsmd

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-newsmd

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-newsmd

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: 58 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 75%
Return-value docs: 33%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

An R package to create NEWS.md files HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,564 · ~7/day · ~216/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31430 days

66290 days

2.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on67 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

dschaykib/newsmd ↗Account: Dschaykib

5Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

134Commits

4Commit identities

134 commits · Last activity 2023-04-19

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 920
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dschaykib/newsmd 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

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

renv

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

Lint workflow

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing newsmd adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 63 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: R6 63 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3

Imports (1)

R6

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

desc knitr lintr rmarkdown testthat

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)

Jakob Gepp

Maintainer since 0.3.1 (2021), Author

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.1Latest
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2023-04-17 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-02-16 · diff ↗ ·
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get_version
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.1
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2021-02-24
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-02-24
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3
Download size: 15 KB

Appears in task views

Package Development and Maintenance

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("newsmd")

Format

Gepp, J. (2023). newsmd: Creation of NEWS.md File (Version 0.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.newsmd

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 newsmd version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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