R Observatory: Metrics for pkglite version 0.2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pkglite

0.2.6Package record

Compact Package Representations

0packages depend

8.7Kdownloads / year

95.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dickson WanjauCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A tool, grammar, and standard to represent and exchange R package source code as text files. Converts one or more source packages to a text file and restores the package structures from the file.

Changes in 0.2.6

Update maintainer email

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pkglite", 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("Merck/pkglite")

Development version from Merck/pkglite. 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-pkglite

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-pkglite

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-pkglite

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.6

READMEYes · 153 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.6Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 23 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%19 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 84%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

8.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,668 · ~24/day · ~726/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

55330 days

1.5K90 days

8.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on183 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

merck/pkglite ↗Organization: Merck

31Stars

4Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

131Commits

11Commit identities

packagerpackaging-toolectdclinical-trialspharmaverse

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 131 commits · Last activity 2026-06-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-09 · 302026-07-15 · 31

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/merck/pkglite 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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-11, before release 0.2.6 (2026-06-12)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pkglite adds 3 packages (1 with compiled code, 475 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: magrittr 275 KB, remotes 161 KB, crayon 39 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

crayon magrittr remotes

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

covr 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 (9)

Dickson Wanjau

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.6 (2026) · added in 0.2.6

Keaven Anderson

Author

Benjamin Wang

Author · added in 0.2.5

Author

Author

Contributor

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

Amin Shirazi

Contributor

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA and its affiliates

Copyright holder · added in 0.2.2

Previously maintained by Benjamin Wang (0.2.5) and Nan Xiao (0.1.1 to 0.2.4).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.2.1

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.6Latest
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2026-06-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.5
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2026-02-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.4
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2024-11-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
pattern_file_src
0.2.3
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2024-09-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.2
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2024-02-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.1
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2022-08-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.0
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2021-05-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
file_tests, prune, sanitize
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.1
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2021-03-08
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-08
Total releases: 8 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 514 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("pkglite")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1177/17407745221123244.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 pkglite version 0.2.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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