R Observatory: Metrics for pkgnews version 0.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pkgnews

0.0.2Package record

Retrieve R Package News Files

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

98.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Owen JonesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Read R package news files, regardless of whether or not the package is installed.

Changes in 0.0.2

Fix tests which were failing due to text formatting differences.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pkgnews", 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("owenjonesuob/pkgnews")

Development version from owenjonesuob/pkgnews. 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-pkgnews

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-pkgnews

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-pkgnews

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: 48 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.2

READMEYes · 129 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.0.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,022 · ~7/day · ~205/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25130 days

66690 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on66 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

owenjonesuob/pkgnews ↗Account: owenjonesuob

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

11Commits

1Commit identities

11 commits · Last activity 2021-03-12

Responsiveness

not measured

Releases over time

2026-07-09 · 12026-08-09 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/owenjonesuob/pkgnews on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on macOS

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

commonmark httr xml2 covr 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 (1)

Owen Jones

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2021)

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-03-12
0.0.2Latest
record
2021-03-12 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-02-10
check problems were not corrected in time
0.0.1
record
2021-01-05
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-01-05
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 4.1 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pkgnews")

Format

Jones, O. (2021). pkgnews: Retrieve R Package News Files (Version 0.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pkgnews

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 pkgnews version 0.0.2 [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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