R Observatory: Metrics for packagefinder version 0.3.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

packagefinder

0.3.5Package record

Comfortable Search for R Packages on CRAN, Either Directly from the R Console or with an R Studio Add-in

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joachim ZuckarelliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Search for R packages on CRAN directly from the R console, based on the packages' titles, short and long descriptions, or other fields. Combine multiple keywords with logical operators ('and', 'or'), view detailed information on any package and keep track of the latest package contributions to CRAN. If you don't want to search from the R console, use the comfortable R Studio add-in.

Changes in 0.3.5

Bug fix

whatsNew() does not give error when package date is NA.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("packagefinder", 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("jsugarelli/packagefinder")

Development version from jsugarelli/packagefinder. 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-packagefinder

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-04

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-03
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.5

READMEYes · 199 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 0%6 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,686 · ~11/day · ~321/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39230 days

1K90 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on66 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

jsugarelli/packagefinder ↗Account: jsugarelli

42Stars

3Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

22Commits

1Commit identities

crancran-searchr-package

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 22 commits · Last activity 2020-10-26 · The default branch showed an older version (0.3.2) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 144
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1,563

Stars over time

2023-01-18 · 422026-07-07 · 42

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jsugarelli/packagefinder on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing packagefinder adds 71 packages (38 with compiled code, 53 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (1)

tools

Imports (16)

httrutilsjsonlite pander formattable stringr crayon lubridate tidyr textutils htmlTable clipr shiny reactable shinyjs shinybusy

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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)

Joachim Zuckarelli

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.7 (2018)

Releases (14)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.5Latest
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2023-08-08 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-01-06
0.3.4
record
2023-01-06 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-06-06
policy violation On Internet access to cran.r-project.org
0.3.3
record
2022-06-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.2
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2020-10-26 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2020-09-27 · diff ↗
0.3.0
record
2020-09-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.1
record
2020-03-31 · diff ↗

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0.2.0
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2020-03-16 · diff ↗
0.1.5
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2019-11-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
fp
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-05-27
0.1.4
record
2019-05-27 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-05-13
repeated policy violation Same old check failures depending on web access
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-04-27
0.1.2
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2019-04-27 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-04-17
check issues were not corrected Intermittent issues including 0-length conditions and bad input formats
0.1.1
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2019-04-14 · diff ↗
0.1.0
record
2019-04-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
exploreFields, lastResults, packageDetails, whatsNew
0.0.7
record
2018-07-05
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-05
Total releases: 14 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 424 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("packagefinder")

Format

Zuckarelli, J. (2023). packagefinder: Comfortable Search for R Packages on CRAN, Either Directly from the R Console or with an R Studio Add-in (Version 0.3.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.packagefinder

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 packagefinder version 0.3.5 [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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