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

0packages dependsuggested by 4

425.8Kdownloads / year

97.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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).

Changes in 0.2.4

The .Rbuildignore stanza now includes .github
The support of and usage illustrations of tinytest are much enhanced (Paul Hudor in 18 adressing 19 and 20)
The .gitignore file now includes C++ related files
Improvements and polish to badges and continuous integration
The DESCRIPTION file now contains an Authors@R entry

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 1.6 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 0.2.4

READMEYes · 118 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · mentions 0.2.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

425.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #520 · ~1.2K/day · ~35.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31.8K30 days

138.6K90 days

425.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.9K r2u138 autocran112 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

eddelbuettel/pkgkitten ↗Account: eddelbuettel

36Stars

6Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

114Commits

9Commit identities

rcranr-packageskeleton

114 commits · Last activity 2026-08-17 · Default branch at 0.2.4.1, ahead of CRAN 0.2.4 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Commits over time

2026-07-12 · 1112026-08-23 · 114

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/pkgkitten on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-17

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

whoami tinytest roxygen2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 4

Suggests, most downloaded first

Rcpp RcppEigen RcppArmadillo RcppSMC

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2014)

Releases (11)

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

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kitten, playWithPerPackageHelpPage
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Package metadata

First published: 2014-06-13
Total releases: 11 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 11 KB

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

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pkgKitten version 0.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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