R Observatory: Metrics for pkgsearch version 3.1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pkgsearch

3.1.5Package record

Search and Query CRAN R Packages

6packages dependsuggested by 3

80.2Kdownloads / year

31.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: R Consortium

Search CRAN metadata about packages by keyword, popularity, recent activity, package name and more. Uses the 'R-hub' search server, see https://r-pkg.org and the CRAN metadata database, that contains information about CRAN packages. Note that this is _not_ a CRAN project.

Changes in 3.1.5

cran_new() works correctly again.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pkgsearch", 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("r-hub/pkgsearch")

Development version from r-hub/pkgsearch. 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-pkgsearch

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-pkgsearch

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-pkgsearch

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-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 3.1.5

READMEYes · 3,613 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.1.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 11 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check (9 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 90%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

80.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,424 · ~220/day · ~6.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.6K30 days

18.7K90 days

80.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on767 r2u5 autocran964 conda_forge126 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-hub/pkgsearch ↗Organization: r-hub

111Stars

9Forks

31Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

411Commits

6Commit identities

cranpackagesearch-enginerrankingrstatsr-package

411 commits · Last activity 2025-04-12 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.1.5.9000, ahead of CRAN 3.1.5 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-07-09 · 1102026-07-29 · 111

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-hub/pkgsearch on 2026-10-18.

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)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-04-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-04-12

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pkgsearch adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

curl jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

covr memoise mockery pillar pingr rstudioapi shiny shinyjs shinyWidgets testthat whoami withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

7indirect

Imports 6

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

toOrdinal btw packageRank normfluodbf myCRAN packageRankWrapperDriver

Suggests, most downloaded first

pak ravepipeline pacs

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 2.0.0 (2018)

Maëlle Salmon

Author · added in 3.0.0

R Consortium

Funder · added in 3.0.0

Releases (12)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.1.5Latest
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2025-04-12 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
3.1.4
record
2025-01-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.1.3
record
2023-12-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
3.1.2
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2022-10-26 · diff ↗
3.1.1
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2022-07-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
3.1.0
record
2022-02-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
cran_new
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
3.0.3
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2020-10-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
3.0.2
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2019-12-19 · diff ↗
3.0.1
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2019-11-25 · diff ↗

Show 5 earlier eventsHide 5 earlier events

3.0.0
record
2019-11-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
advanced_search, cran_events, cran_package, cran_package_history, cran_packages, cran_top_downloaded, cran_trending, pkg_search_addin
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.0.1
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2018-12-05 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2018-11-16
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-11-16
Total releases: 12 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 58 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pkgsearch")

Format

Csárdi, G., R Consortium, & Salmon, M. (2025). pkgsearch: Search and Query CRAN R Packages (Version 3.1.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pkgsearch

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pkgsearch version 3.1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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