R Observatory: Metrics for pkgKitten version 0.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pkgKitten

0.2.4

Create Simple Packages Which Do not Upset R Package Checks

4packages depend

399.1Kdownloads / year

97.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelFirst published 2014-06-1311 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a function kitten() which creates cute little packages which pass R package checks. This sets it apart from package.skeleton() which it calls, and which leaves imperfect files behind. As this is not exactly helpful for beginners, kitten() offers an alternative. Unit test support can be added via the 'tinytest' package (if present), and documentation-creation support can be added via 'roxygen2' (if present).

Install

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

install.packages("pkgKitten", 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("eddelbuettel/pkgkitten")

Development version from eddelbuettel/pkgkitten. 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-pkgkitten

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-pkgKitten

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-pkgKitten

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

97.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 118 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

399.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #415 · ~1.1K/day · ~33.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

60.8K30 days

211.3K90 days

399.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.7K r2u173 autocran74 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ eddelbuettel/pkgkitten

36Stars

6Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

114Commits

9Contributors

rcranr-packageskeleton

114 commits · Last activity 2026-08-17

Commits over time

2026-07-12 · 1112026-08-23 · 114

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/pkgkitten on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

whoami tinytest roxygen2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppEigen RcppSMC

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

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 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.4Latest
2024-08-30 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.3
2023-03-11 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.2
2021-07-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.1
2021-02-22 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2020-09-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.5
2019-10-22 · 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

Show 8 earlier events

0.1.4
2016-11-13 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.3
2015-06-13 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.1.2
2014-09-11 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2014-09-10 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2014-06-13
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-06-13
Total releases: 11 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 11 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pkgKitten")

Format

Eddelbuettel, D. (2024). pkgKitten: Create Simple Packages Which Do not Upset R Package Checks (Version 0.2.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pkgKitten

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

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 pkgKitten version 0.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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