R Observatory: Metrics for pingr version 2.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pingr

2.0.5

Check if a Remote Computer is Up

20packages depend

488.1Kdownloads / year

16.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiFirst published 2014-09-2210 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Check if a remote computer is up. It can either just call the system ping command, or check a specified TCP port.

Install

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

install.packages("pingr", 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("r-lib/pingr")

Development version from r-lib/pingr. 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-pingr

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-pingr

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-pingr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.26

16.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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
OK2026-05-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-05-09
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 254 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 83%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

488.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #570 · ~1.3K/day · ~40.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34.6K30 days

119.5K90 days

488.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on5.2K r2u48 autocran6.3K conda_forge144 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/pingr

38Stars

9Forks

4Open issues

1Open PRs

8Releases

186Commits

5Contributors

rdnsis-onlinepingtcp

186 commits · Last activity 2026-06-05 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 372026-07-07 · 38

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/pingr on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (2)

processxutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

covr ps testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

20direct

2indirect

RBaseX codemetar cymruservices gwasrapidd proffer rgsrs ropenblas shinytest shinytest2 wdpar yfR openmpp pak pkgcache pkgdepends pkgsearch ps remotes vetiver webdriver

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.0.3

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.0.3

Package Timeline

10 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 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.0.5Latest
2024-12-12 · current release · diff ↗
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2024-10-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.0.3
2023-12-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.0.2
2022-10-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.0.1
2020-06-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.0.0
2019-10-21 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2019-10-09 · diff ↗
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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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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
1.1.0
2014-10-06 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2014-09-22
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-22
Total releases: 10 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 18 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pingr")

Format

Csárdi, G., & Posit Software, PBC. (2024). pingr: Check if a Remote Computer is Up (Version 2.0.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pingr

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pingr version 2.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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