R Observatory: Metrics for otel version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

otel

0.2.0Package record

OpenTelemetry R API

9packages dependsuggested by 9

10.8Mdownloads / year

83.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs used to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis in order to understand your software's performance and behavior. This package implements the OpenTelemetry API: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/. Use this package as a dependency if you want to instrument your R package for OpenTelemetry.

Changes in 0.2.0

Zero Code Instrumentation (ZCI) works again (#20).
The interpolation of R expressions in log messages is not supported any more (#21).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("otel", 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("r-lib/otel")

Development version from r-lib/otel. 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-otel

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-otel

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-otel

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 365 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 45 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 93%42 run in a plain check · 3 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

10.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #36 · ~29.6K/day · ~900.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1M30 days

3.7M90 days

10.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on181.3K r2u6 autocran355.2K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/otel ↗Organization: r-lib

22Stars

6Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

209Commits

4Commit identities

209 commits · Last activity 2026-10-08 · +4.8% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 20

Stars over time

2025-09-30 · 152026-09-25 · 22

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/otel 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-08 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-08

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirVS Code

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

callr cli glue jsonlite otelsdk processx shiny spelling testthatutilswithr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

2,785indirect

Imports 9

Suggested by 9

Show all 18 packagesHide all 18 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

callr shiny promises otelsdk fiery routr reqres shinyOAuth mcplite

Suggests, most downloaded first

knitr testthat DBI httr2 mirai ellmer wrswoR commons bidux

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
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2025-08-29 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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0.1.0
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2025-07-31
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-31
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: github.com
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 71 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("otel")

Format

Csárdi, G. (2025). otel: OpenTelemetry R API (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.otel

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 otel version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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