R Observatory: Metrics for options version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

options

0.3.1Package record

Simple, Consistent Package Options

4packages depend

14.7Kdownloads / year

90.8%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Doug KelkhoffCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Simple mechanisms for defining and interpreting package options. Provides helpers for interpreting environment variables, global options, defining default values and more.

Changes in 0.3.1

Bug Fixes

Fixed define_options when using a NULL default value. Previously, the NULL value would not be recognized and would silently ignore the option definition. (@dgkf #34)
Fixed envvar_is.logical (and thereby, envvar_is_true, envvar_is_false), leveraging as.logical internally to make the parsing from strings align more closely to what one may expect in R. Notably, all lowercase values true and false will now be recognized as their respective logical values. (@dgkf #34)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("options", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-options

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-options

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-options

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Doug Kelkhoff <doug.kelkhoff@gmail.com>’

Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs:
  URL: https://matrix.to/#/#r-pkg-options:matrix.org
    From: README.md
    Message: Invalid URL: '#' not allowed in fragment

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.1

READMEYes · 332 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 20 (11 internal)
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 75%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

options HTML
environment_variables HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

14.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,889 · ~40/day · ~1.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

51330 days

2.4K90 days

14.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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How downloads are counted

Repository

codeberg.org/dgkf/options ↗

4Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

5Releases

136Commits

5Commit identities

developer-toolsrr-package

136 commits · Last activity 2025-03-28

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

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

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository codeberg.org/dgkf/options is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing options adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

crayon knitr rmarkdown roxygen2 rcmdcheck pkgload withr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

checked tidynorm postcard casimir

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Doug Kelkhoff

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2023)

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.1Latest
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2025-03-29 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2024-12-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
opts_list
0.2.0
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2024-05-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_options_env
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.0
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2024-01-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
opt<-, opt_set
0.0.2
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2023-08-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.0.1
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2023-01-09
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-09
Total releases: 6 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 54 KB

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citation("options")

Format

Kelkhoff, D. (2025). options: Simple, Consistent Package Options (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.options

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for options version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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