R Observatory: Metrics for plnr version 2026.9.23

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

plnr

2026.9.23Package record

A Framework for Planning and Executing Analyses

0packages dependsuggested by 1

8.4Kdownloads / year

53.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard Aubrey WhiteCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A comprehensive framework for planning and executing analyses in R. It provides a structured approach to running the same function multiple times with different arguments, executing multiple functions on the same datasets, and creating systematic analyses across multiple strata or variables. The framework is particularly useful for applying the same analysis across multiple strata (e.g., locations, age groups), running statistical methods on multiple variables (e.g., exposures, outcomes), generating multiple tables or graphs for reports, and creating systematic surveillance analyses. Key features include efficient data management, structured analysis planning, flexible execution options, built-in debugging tools, and hash-based caching.

Changes in 2026.9.23

This CRAN release carries the Plan$add_analysis_from_list() fix from 2026.8.3 (#1). CRAN version 2025.11.22 does not have it.
DESCRIPTION now declares R (>= 4.1.0), because the code uses the base pipe |>.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("plnr", 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("raubreywhite/plnr")

Development version from raubreywhite/plnr. 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-plnr

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-plnr

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-plnr

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-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2026.9.23

READMEYes · 218 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2026.9.23Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 90%9 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Introduction to plnr HTML
Adding analyses to a plan HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

8.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,597 · ~23/day · ~697/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

68630 days

1.5K90 days

8.4K1 year

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Also on85 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

raubreywhite/plnr ↗Account: raubreywhite

4Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

267Commits

5Commit identities

rr-package

267 commits · Last activity 2026-09-24 · Default branch at 2026.9.24, ahead of CRAN 2026.9.23 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Issues over time

2026-07-14 · 02026-09-24 · 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/raubreywhite/plnr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-24

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-24

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2025-11-22
Seen in the repository: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing plnr adds 49 packages (27 with compiled code, 34 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, pak 3.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (13)

data.table digest fs foreach glue pbmcapply purrr R6statstidyr usethisutilsuuid

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat knitr rmarkdown progressr ggplot2 readxl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

csalert

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Richard Aubrey White

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Folkehelseinstituttet

no longer listed · 2022.6.8

Richard Aubrey

no longer listed · 2022.6.8 to 2025.11.22

White

no longer listed · 2026.9.23

Releases (4)

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2026.9.23Latest
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2026-09-23 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2025.11.22
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2025-11-22 · diff ↗
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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
2022.11.23
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2022-11-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
example_data_fn_norway_covid19_cases_by_time_location

added 1 export
example_data_fn_nor_covid19_cases_by_time_location
2022.6.8
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2022-06-09
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-06-09
Total releases: 4 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 66 KB / 1 file
Download size: 208 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("plnr")

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

It points to 10.32614/cran.package.plnr.

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 plnr version 2026.9.23 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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