R Observatory: Metrics for pkgdiff version 1.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pkgdiff

1.0.5Package record

Identifies Package Differences

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

56.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David BosakCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Identifies differences between versions of a package. Specifically, the functions help determine if there are breaking changes from one package version to the next. The package also includes a stability assessment, to help you determine the overall stability of a package, or even an entire repository.

Changes in 1.0.5

Fix some errors/warnings due to dependency deprecation.
Improve error handling when package data is not found.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pkgdiff", 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("dbosak01/pkgdiff")

Development version from dbosak01/pkgdiff. 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-pkgdiff

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-pkgdiff

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-pkgdiff

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: 5.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-09-18
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-12
OK13 OK2026-08-27

Show 15 earlier changesHide 15 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-12
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-04
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-03
OK13 OK2026-06-02
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
WARNING13 OK, 1 WARNING2026-04-24
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-22
OK14 OK2026-04-20
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-19
OK14 OK2026-03-26
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.5

READMEYes · 322 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 17 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,267 · ~10/day · ~319/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34730 days

79890 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on99 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

dbosak01/pkgdiff ↗Account: dbosak01

5Stars

1Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

110Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as CC0-1.0 · 110 commits · Last activity 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2026-07-09 · 02026-10-09 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dbosak01/pkgdiff on 2026-10-21.

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 (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-11

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-11

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pkgdiff adds 24 packages (14 with compiled code, 8.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (7)

rvest common crayonutilscranlogsgrDevicesgraphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

David Bosak

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.9 (2025)

Kevin Putschko

Contributor

Brian Varney

Contributor

Releases (9)

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1.0.5Latest
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2026-10-11 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.4
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2026-07-14 · diff ↗
1.0.3
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2026-05-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.2
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2026-03-26 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2025-12-16 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2025-11-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
pkg_summary
0.2.1
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2025-07-12 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2025-04-13 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.9
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2025-03-13
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-03-13
Total releases: 9 / 1 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 653 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pkgdiff")

Format

Bosak, D., Putschko, K., & Varney, B. (2026). pkgdiff: Identifies Package Differences (Version 1.0.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pkgdiff

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

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 pkgdiff version 1.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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