R Observatory: Metrics for port4me version 0.7.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

port4me

0.7.1Package record

Get the Same, Personal, Free 'TCP' Port over and over

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

96.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An R implementation of the cross-platform, language-independent "port4me" algorithm (https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/port4me), which (1) finds a free Transmission Control Protocol ('TCP') port in [1024,65535] that the user can open, (2) is designed to work in multi-user environments, (3), gives different users, different ports, (4) gives the user the same port over time with high probability, (5) gives different ports for different software tools, and (6) requires no configuration.

Changes in 0.7.1

Bug Fixes

Version 0.7.0 would not install on FreeBSD.
The package gave compilation errors on some macOS platforms.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("port4me", 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("HenrikBengtsson/port4me")

Development version from HenrikBengtsson/port4me. 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-port4me

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-port4me

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-port4me

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: 2.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.1

READMEYes · 1,776 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7.1Citation fileNo

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

Vignettes (1)

port4me: Get the Same, Personal, Free TCP Port over and over HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,886 · ~6/day · ~191/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23130 days

51390 days

2.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on347 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

henrikbengtsson/port4me ↗Account: HenrikBengtsson

13Stars

3Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

606Commits

3Commit identities

bashcliportr-languagetcphigh-performance-computinghpcmulti-tenant

606 commits · Last activity 2024-03-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-05-01 · 122026-07-07 · 13

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/henrikbengtsson/port4me on 2026-10-11.

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 (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-01-06

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing port4me adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

toolsrmarkdown knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Henrik Bengtsson

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

C code for testing availability of TCP ports

Releases (5)

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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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0.6.0
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-10-29
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-10-29
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 38 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("port4me")

Format

Bengtsson, H., & Ooms, J. (2024). port4me: Get the Same, Personal, Free 'TCP' Port over and over (Version 0.7.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.port4me

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for port4me version 0.7.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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