R Observatory: Metrics for noctua version 2.6.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2025-09-15. Its history is shown below.

Details below reflect version 2.6.3, its last release before removal.

noctua

2.6.3Package record

0packages depend

10.9Kdownloads / year

12.6%test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dyfan JonesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Changes in 2.6.3

Bug Fix:

Unload option returns null results when s3_staging_dir is a bucket only (#214) thanks to @dfsnow for implementing solution
Add support for describe (#218) thanks to @tyner for raising issue
Add support for EXPLAIN (TYPE validate) (#225) thanks to @tyner for raising issue
Fix link for document dbSendQuery (#223) thanks to @tyner for raising issue
Return athena option environment from noctua_options (#226) thanks to @tyner for raising issue
Support SelectedEngineVersion in update_work_group (#224) thanks to @tyner for raising issue

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/noctua/noctua_2.6.3.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "noctua_2.6.3.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (2.6.3) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("DyfanJones/noctua")

Development version from DyfanJones/noctua. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

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 2.6.3

READMEYes · 1,153 wordsVignettesYes · 7 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 2.6.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 25 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 10%1 run in a plain check · 9 never run
Exported functions with examples: 40%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 93%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

10.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,351 · ~30/day · ~908/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

030 days

80190 days

10.9K1 year

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Repository

dyfanjones/noctua ↗Historical

Last recorded for this package on 2026-08-30. The package was removed from CRAN, so this repository is no longer tracked.

How these are measured

PracticesHistoricalBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the repository last recorded for this package

Checks last ran against github.com/dyfanjones/noctua on 2026-08-30. The package was removed from CRAN, so this is no longer updated.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

pkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (7)

data.table DBImethodspaws (>= 0.2.0)statsutilsuuid

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

arrow bit64 dplyr dbplyr testthat tibble vroom covr knitr rmarkdown jsonify jsonlite

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Dyfan Jones

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2019)

Releases (28)

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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-08-31
issues were not corrected after reminders requires the portmanteau package paws and hence the hard-to-install paws.analytics
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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removed 1 export
sql_escape_string.AthenaConnection

added 2 exports
AthenaListObjects, AthenaPreviewObject
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dbStatistics, sql_escape_string.AthenaConnection
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dbGetTables, noctua_options
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-20
Total releases: 28 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 404 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("noctua")

Format

Jones, D. (n.d.). noctua (Version 2.6.3) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=noctua

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for noctua version 2.6.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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