R Observatory: Metrics for packer version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-03-21. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected despite reminders

Details below reflect version 0.1.3, its last release before removal.

packer

0.1.3Package record

An Opinionated Framework for Using 'JavaScript'

0packages dependsuggested by 3

12.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by John CoeneCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Enforces good practice and provides convenience functions to make work with 'JavaScript' not just easier but also scalable. It is a robust wrapper to 'NPM', 'yarn', and 'webpack' that enables to compartmentalize 'JavaScript' code, leverage 'NPM' and 'yarn' packages, include 'TypeScript', 'React', or 'Vue' in web applications, and much more.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/packer/packer_0.1.3.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "packer_0.1.3.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.1.3) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("JohnCoene/packer")

Development version from JohnCoene/packer. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Status changes

NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.3

READMEYes · 193 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.1.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 64
Examples that run: 50%8 run in a plain check (8 of them under a condition) · 8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 25%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 17%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

12.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,710 · ~35/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

030 days

090 days

12.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on54 r2u6 autocran428 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

fs cli usethis jsonlite roxygen2 rprojroot rstudioapi assertthat htmlwidgets

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat covr golem

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

waiter jqbr leprechaun

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

John Coene

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.6 (2020)

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-03-21
issues were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.3
record
2022-05-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
dev_roclet, npx, prod_roclet, use_tailwind
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.2
record
2022-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
are_minified, include_tests

added 9 exports
apply_framework7, ease_lit, engine_check, include_action_check, include_tests_mocha, include_tests_peeky, put_test, scaffold_bare, use_loader_framework7
0.1.1
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2021-08-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
use_loader_eslint

added 12 exports
add_jsdoc_tutorial, add_plugin_jsdoc, add_plugin_workbox, are_minified, checks, engine_adapt, engine_which, put_precommit_hook, put_recommended, put_rprofile_adapt, scaffold_leprechaun, use_loader_svelte
0.1.0
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2021-07-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 26 exports
add_plugin_eslint, add_plugin_prettier, engine_console, engine_get, engine_set, engine_yarn_install, engine_yarn_set, make_library, npm_outdated, npm_run, npm_uninstall, npm_update, set_yarn, ts_get_type, ts_get_types, use_loader_style, use_loader_ts, yarn_add, yarn_clean, yarn_console, yarn_install, yarn_outdated, yarn_remove, yarn_run, yarn_upgrade, yarn_version
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.0.6
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2020-10-20
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-10-20
Total releases: 5 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 54 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("packer")

Format

Coene, J. (n.d.). packer: An Opinionated Framework for Using 'JavaScript' (Version 0.1.3) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=packer

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 packer version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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