R Observatory: Metrics for otelsdk version 0.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

otelsdk

0.2.4Package record

R SDK and Exporters for OpenTelemetry

0packages dependsuggested by 14

338.2Kdownloads / year

79.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

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 contains the OpenTelemetry SDK, and exporters. Use this package to export traces, metrics, logs from instrumented R code. Use the otel package to instrument your R code for OpenTelemetry.

Changes in 0.2.4

otel and otelsdk now support R 4.2.x on Windows.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("otelsdk", 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/otelsdk")

Development version from r-lib/otelsdk. 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-otelsdk

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-otelsdk

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Additional issues

musl

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 18.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-21
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-08-17
OK13 OK2026-08-05

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-30
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-29
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-16
WARNING6 OK, 7 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-03-21
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.4

READMEYes · 415 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 17 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 71%12 run in a plain check · 5 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

338.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #664 · ~927/day · ~28.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

18.7K30 days

82.2K90 days

338.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on600 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/otelsdk ↗Organization: r-lib

18Stars

5Forks

16Open issues

1Open PRs

6Releases

427Commits

4Commit identities

427 commits · Last activity 2026-10-08 · +5.9% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.4 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-30 · 112026-09-25 · 18

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/otelsdk on 2026-10-18.

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 2026-04-08

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirVS Code

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing otelsdk adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 71 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: otel 71 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

otelutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

callr cli curl gh jsonlite processx ps rlang spelling testthat webfakes withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 14

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Suggests, most downloaded first

knitr otel callr shiny testthat DBI promises httr2 mirai ellmer shinyOAuth commons bidux mcplite

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2025)

opentelemetry-cpp authors

Contributor

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-09-10
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 3.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("otelsdk")

Format

Csárdi, G., Posit Software, PBC, & opentelemetry-cpp authors, . (2026). otelsdk: R SDK and Exporters for OpenTelemetry (Version 0.2.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.otelsdk

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 otelsdk version 0.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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