R Observatory: Metrics for pointr version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pointr

0.2.0Package record

Working Comfortably with Pointers and Shortcuts to R Objects

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joachim ZuckarelliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

R has no built-in pointer functionality. The 'pointr' package fills this gap and lets you create pointers to R objects, including subsets of dataframes. This makes your R code more readable and maintainable.

Changes in 0.2.0

Major changes

New operator %=% to added (contribution of Chad Hammerquist)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pointr", 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("jsugarelli/pointr")

Development version from jsugarelli/pointr. 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-pointr

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-pointr

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-pointr

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: 46 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 598 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,351 · ~9/day · ~283/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31130 days

86890 days

3.4K1 year

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Also on66 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jsugarelli/pointr ↗Account: jsugarelli

8Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

2Commits

1Commit identities

r-packager-languager-langpointers

2 commits · Last activity 2020-12-21

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2024-09-03 · 82026-07-07 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jsugarelli/pointr on 2026-10-21.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pointr adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

stringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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)

Joachim Zuckarelli

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Releases (2)

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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0.2.0Latest
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2021-01-06 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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2020-06-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-22
Total releases: 2 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 4.8 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pointr")

Format

Zuckarelli, J. (2021). pointr: Working Comfortably with Pointers and Shortcuts to R Objects (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pointr

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 pointr version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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