R Observatory: Metrics for packrat version 0.9.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

packrat

0.9.3Package record

A Dependency Management System for Projects and their R Package Dependencies

2packages dependsuggested by 2

578.6Kdownloads / year

56.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Aron AtkinsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Manage the R packages your project depends on in an isolated, portable, and reproducible way.

Install

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

install.packages("packrat", 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("rstudio/packrat")

Development version from rstudio/packrat. 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-packrat

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-packrat

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-packrat

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: 3.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-21
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-08-17
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.3

READMEYes · 671 wordsVignettesNoNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNo

Help pages: 24 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 27%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 9%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

578.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #559 · ~1.6K/day · ~48.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38.9K30 days

118.8K90 days

578.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on4K r2u213 autocran17.5K conda_forge232 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/packrat ↗Organization: rstudio

409Stars

89Forks

226Open issues

5Open PRs

12Releases

1,805Commits

45Commit identities

1,805 commits · Last activity 2026-10-14 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.9.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.9.3 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-11 · 4052026-07-30 · 409

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/packrat 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 (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-06-01

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (4)

lintrLint workflowAirRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

An outside contributor's pull request to this repository was written with an AI coding tool.

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-10-06

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing packrat adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (2)

toolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

devtools httr knitr mockery rmarkdown testthat (>= 3.0.0)webfakes withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

1indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rsconnect cloudml

Suggests, most downloaded first

renv jetpack

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Aron Atkins

Author, Maintainer since 0.7.0 (2021) · added in 0.4.5

JJ Allaire

Author

Toph Allen

Author · added in 0.8.1

Author

Author

Author

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.9.1

Previously maintained by Kevin Ushey (0.4.1 to 0.6.0).

Releases (25)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.3Latest
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2025-06-16 · 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
0.9.2
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2023-09-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.9.1
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2023-02-27 · diff ↗
0.9.0
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2023-01-09 · diff ↗
0.8.1
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2022-06-29 · diff ↗
0.8.0
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2022-05-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.7.0
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2021-08-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.6.0
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2021-03-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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0.5.0
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2018-11-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
migrate
0.4.9-3
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2018-06-01 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.4.9-2
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2018-04-20 · diff ↗
0.4.9-1
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2018-03-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_lockfile_metadata, set_lockfile_metadata
0.4.9
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2018-03-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
bundles_dir, lib_dir, project_dir, src_dir
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.4.8-1
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2016-09-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.4.7-1
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2016-03-28 · diff ↗
0.4.7
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2016-03-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
install_github
0.4.6-1
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2015-11-05 · diff ↗
0.4.6
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2015-11-03 · diff ↗
0.4.5
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2015-10-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
repos_set_local
0.4.4
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2015-06-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
repos_add, repos_add_local, repos_create, repos_list, repos_remove, repos_set, repos_upload
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.4.3
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2015-01-29 · diff ↗
0.4.2-1
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2014-12-16 · diff ↗
0.4.2
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2014-12-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
.snapshotImpl
0.4.1-1
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2014-09-03 · diff ↗
0.4.1
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2014-09-03
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-03
Total releases: 25 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 370 KB

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Format

Atkins, A., Posit Software, PBC, Allaire, J., Allen, T., Cheng, J., McPherson, J., & Ushey, K. (2025). packrat: A Dependency Management System for Projects and their R Package Dependencies (Version 0.9.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.packrat

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for packrat version 0.9.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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