R Observatory: Metrics for parsedate version 1.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

parsedate

1.3.2Package record

Recognize and Parse Dates in Various Formats, Including All ISO 8601 Formats

15packages dependsuggested by 3

98.1Kdownloads / year

60.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Parse dates automatically, without the need of specifying a format. Currently it includes the git date parser. It can also recognize and parse all ISO 8601 formats.

Changes in 1.3.2

No user visible changes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("parsedate", 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("gaborcsardi/parsedate")

Development version from gaborcsardi/parsedate. 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-parsedate

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-parsedate

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-parsedate

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: 1.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.2

READMEYes · 541 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.2Citation fileNo

Help pages: 4includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

98.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,513 · ~269/day · ~8.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.2K30 days

16K90 days

98.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.3K r2u3 autocran5.3K conda_forge169 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gaborcsardi/parsedate ↗Account: gaborcsardi

65Stars

7Forks

9Open issues

3Open PRs

5Releases

127Commits

6Commit identities

127 commits · Last activity 2024-12-10 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.3.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.3.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 82%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-03 · 652026-07-07 · 65

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/gaborcsardi/parsedate on 2026-10-11.

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)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

covr testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

15direct

3indirect

Imports 15

Suggested by 3

Show all 18 packagesHide all 18 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

shinytest ctmm dataone cgmanalysis rerddapXtracto gatoRs DQAstats DIZtools movedesign DQAgui matman togglr semnar sendigR mds

Suggests, most downloaded first

datefixR fledge sitrep

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.1.3

Linus Torvalds

Author

Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2014)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Gabor Csardi

no longer listed · 1.0.2 to 1.1.1

Releases (9)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-28
Total releases: 9 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 20 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("parsedate")

Format

Csárdi, G., & Torvalds, L. (2024). parsedate: Recognize and Parse Dates in Various Formats, Including All ISO 8601 Formats (Version 1.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.parsedate

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 parsedate version 1.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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