R Observatory: Metrics for packagefinder version 0.3.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

packagefinder

0.3.5

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

0packages depend

4.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Joachim ZuckarelliFirst published 2018-07-0514 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

17

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-03
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 199 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,773 · ~11/day · ~340/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25730 days

91890 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on98 r2u

Repository

GitHub ↗ jsugarelli/packagefinder

42Stars

3Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

22Commits

1Contributors

crancran-searchr-package

License GPL-3.0 · 22 commits · Last activity 2023-10-20

Stars over time

2023-01-18 · 422026-07-07 · 42

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jsugarelli/packagefinder on 2026-08-09.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Joachim Zuckarelli

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Joachim Zuckarelli

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

14 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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
2023-08-08 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.4
2023-01-06 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-01-06
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-06-06
policy violation On Internet access to cran.r-project.org
0.3.3
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
2020-10-26 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2020-09-27 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2020-09-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.1
2020-03-31 · diff ↗

Show 13 earlier events

0.2.0
2020-03-16 · diff ↗
0.1.5
2019-11-01 · diff ↗
0.1.4
2019-05-27 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-05-27
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-05-13
repeated policy violation Same old check failures depending on web access
0.1.2
2019-04-27 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-04-27
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
2019-04-14 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2019-04-02 · diff ↗
0.0.7
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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 is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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