R Observatory: Metrics for packager version 1.15.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

packager

1.15.3Package record

Create, Build and Maintain Packages

0packages depend

7.2Kdownloads / year

54.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andreas Dominik CullmannCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗

Helper functions for package creation, building and maintenance. Designed to work with a build system such as 'GNU make' or package 'fakemake' to help you to conditionally work through the stages of package development (such as spell checking, linting, testing, before building and checking a package).

Changes in 1.15.3

Adapted lintr::indentation_linter() in lint_package() to my vim-settings.
Fixed CRAN notes on lost braces.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("packager", 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("fvafrcu/packager")

Development version from fvafrcu/packager. 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-packager

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-packager

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-packager

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: 6.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-16

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-15
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.15.3

READMEYes · 39 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.15.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 49 (28 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 67%12 run in a plain check · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 38%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,792 · ~20/day · ~597/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

59230 days

1.4K90 days

7.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on64 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

gitlab.com/fvafrcu/packager ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository gitlab.com/fvafrcu/packager is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

34 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing packager adds 51 packages (21 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: igraph 4.8 MB, fs 1.4 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (21)

callr checkmatecodetoolscrayon cyclocomp desc fakemake fritools fs gert httr pkgbuild pkgload rcmdcheck remotes rhub rprojroot tinytesttoolswhisker whoami

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

cleanr covr devtools digest document knitr lintr rasciidoc rmarkdown roxygen2 RUnitstatsspelling testthat usethis withr

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)

Andreas Dominik Cullmann

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2020)

Releases (21)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.15.3Latest
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2025-05-24 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.15.2
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2023-08-16 · diff ↗
1.15.1
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2023-07-07 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-06-19
1.15.0
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2023-06-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-09-04
requires archived package 'fritools'
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.14.0
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2021-12-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
build_manual
1.13.0
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2021-08-02 · diff ↗
1.12.0
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2021-06-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.11.1
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2021-03-21 · diff ↗

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1.11.0
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2021-03-10 · diff ↗
1.10.0
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2021-01-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
git_diff
1.9.0
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2021-01-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
get_package_version, is_version_sufficient, provide_news_rd
1.8.0
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2020-12-02 · diff ↗
1.7.0
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2020-11-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
use_devel_version, use_git_check_version_not_tagged, use_git_pre_commit_script
1.6.0
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2020-11-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
lint_package
1.5.0
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2020-09-28 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-08-24
1.4.0
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2020-08-24 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-05-12
check problems were not corrected in time
1.3.0
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2020-05-08 · diff ↗
1.2.1
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2020-04-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
as.package
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.2.0
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2020-04-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
extract_vignette_codes
1.1.0
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2020-03-13 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2020-02-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-01-13
a very serious policy violation
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-02-21
Total releases: 21 / 6 yrs
License: BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 118 KB

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Format

Cullmann, A. D. (2025). packager: Create, Build and Maintain Packages (Version 1.15.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.packager

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for packager version 1.15.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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