R Observatory: Metrics for piggyback version 0.1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

piggyback

0.1.5

Managing Larger Data on a GitHub Repository

17packages depend

852Kdownloads / year

36.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Carl BoettigerFirst published 2018-09-3011 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Because larger (> 50 MB) data files cannot easily be committed to git, a different approach is required to manage data associated with an analysis in a GitHub repository. This package provides a simple work-around by allowing larger (up to 2 GB) data files to piggyback on a repository as assets attached to individual GitHub releases. These files are not handled by git in any way, but instead are uploaded, downloaded, or edited directly by calls through the GitHub API. These data files can be versioned manually by creating different releases. This approach works equally well with public or private repositories. Data can be uploaded and downloaded programmatically from scripts. No authentication is required to download data from public repositories.

Install

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

install.packages("piggyback", 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("ropensci/piggyback")

Development version from ropensci/piggyback. 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-piggyback

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-piggyback

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-piggyback

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.61

36.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 538 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 22%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 56%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

852K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,029 · ~2.3K/day · ~71K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.5K30 days

10.1K90 days

852K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/piggyback

203Stars

29Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

16Releases

356Commits

19Contributors

git-lfsdata-storerpeer-reviewedr-packagerstats

License GPL-3.0 · 356 commits · Last activity 2025-11-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-18 · 1932026-07-07 · 203

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/piggyback on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (2)

codemeta.jsonJOSS paper

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

cli glue gh httr jsonlite fs lubridate memoise

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

spelling readr covr testthat knitr rmarkdown gert withr magrittr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

17direct

0indirect

brickset clinTrialData cnefetools gwid metaboData odbr pkgmatch ready4 sprtt wru RSQLite.toolkit healthbR megatrees nflreadr pkgstats prepR4pcm rtrees

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Carl Boettiger

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Carl Boettiger

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Tan Ho

Author · added in 0.1.2

Contributors (3)

Jeffrey O Hanson

Contributor

Kevin Kuo

Contributor · added in 0.0.11

Mark Padgham

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Carl Boettiger

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Jeffrey O

no longer listed · 0.0.9 to 0.1.5

Package Timeline

11 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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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Package metadata

First published: 2018-09-30
Total releases: 11 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 519 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("piggyback")

The authors publish a JOSS paper, so they have said how they want this cited. Run citation() and use what it gives you.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for piggyback version 0.1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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