R Observatory: Metrics for pacman version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pacman

0.5.1Package record

Package Management Tool

5packages dependsuggested by 14

1.2Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tyler RinkerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Tools to more conveniently perform tasks associated with add-on packages. pacman conveniently wraps library and package related functions and names them in an intuitive and consistent fashion. It seeks to combine functionality from lower level functions which can speed up workflow.

Install

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

install.packages("pacman", 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("trinker/pacman")

Development version from trinker/pacman. 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-pacman

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-pacman

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-pacman

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Tyler Rinker <tyler.rinker@gmail.com>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-10-17
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-10-01
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-08-21
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-08-17
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09

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ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.1

READMEYes · 319 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 41
Examples that run: 26%9 run in a plain check · 26 never run
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 19%
Help pages citing references: 7%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #543 · ~3.4K/day · ~103.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41.7K30 days

127.2K90 days

1.2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on8.4K r2u7 autocran13.5K conda_forge63 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

trinker/pacman ↗Account: trinker

328Stars

40Forks

62Open issues

4Open PRs

2Releases

457Commits

14Commit identities

rpackage-managementpackagesr-packagecrangithub

457 commits · Last activity 2020-05-15 · +0.9% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.3, ahead of CRAN 0.5.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 30
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-12 · 3212026-10-06 · 328

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/trinker/pacman on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pacman adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 161 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: remotes 161 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

remotesmethodsstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

BiocManager knitrlatticetestthat XML

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 3

Suggested by 14

Show all 19 packagesHide all 19 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

cpop TidyConsultant ggraptR rcssci currr

Suggests, most downloaded first

languageserver bruceR detrendr exampletestr UCSCXenaShiny nandb RWsearch healthyR BINtools kidsides repana vibass sitrep k5

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Tyler Rinker

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2012), Contributor

Dason Kurkiewicz

Author, Contributor

Garrick Aden-Buie

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Lukas Burk

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Keith Hughitt

Contributor · added in 0.4.1

Albert Wang

Contributor · added in 0.4.5

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Jim Hester

no longer listed · 0.4.6

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.5.1Latest
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2019-03-11 · current release · diff ↗
0.5.0
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2018-10-22 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.4.6
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2017-05-14 · diff ↗
0.4.5
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2017-05-03 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.4.1
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2016-03-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
p_boot, p_install_version_gh, p_load_current_gh, p_old, p_ver_cran, p_ver_diff, p_version_cran, p_version_diff

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.3.0
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2015-02-21 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2015-02-15
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-02-15
Total releases: 7 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 268 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("pacman")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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 pacman version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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