R Observatory: Metrics for patrick version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

patrick

0.3.1Package record

Parameterized Unit Testing

0packages dependsuggested by 18

89.9Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael ChiricoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

This is an extension of the 'testthat' package that lets you add parameters to your unit tests. Parameterized unit tests are often easier to read and more reliable, since they follow the DNRY (do not repeat yourself) rule.

Changes in 0.3.1

@chiricom is now the maintainer of {patrick}. Thanks @michaelquinn32 for 7 years at the help as package creator and maintainer!
Minor fix in the test suite to adapt to {testthat} 3.3.0. Thanks @hadley!
Require R >= 4.1.0, which {testthat} 3.3.0 does as well.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("patrick", 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("google/patrick")

Development version from google/patrick. 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-patrick

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-patrick

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-patrick

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: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-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 0.3.1

READMEYes · 310 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

89.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,448 · ~246/day · ~7.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.5K30 days

18.2K90 days

89.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.3K r2u5 autocran1.9K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

google/patrick ↗Organization: google

145Stars

16Forks

7Open issues

2Open PRs

7Releases

107Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 107 commits · Last activity 2025-12-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 24
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-25 · 1422026-07-07 · 145

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/google/patrick on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dev Container

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

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Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (1)

lintr

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing patrick adds 33 packages (17 with compiled code, 10 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

dplyr glue purrr rlang testthat tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 18

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Suggests, most downloaded first

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Michael Chirico

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3.0

Michael Quinn

Author

Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2018)

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-08-13

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-13
Total releases: 8 / 8 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 8.7 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("patrick")

Format

Chirico, M., & Quinn, M. (2025). patrick: Parameterized Unit Testing (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.patrick

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for patrick version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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