R Observatory: Metrics for positron.tutorials version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

positron.tutorials

0.2.1Package record

Tutorials for Learning 'Positron' and for Using AI

0packages depend

6.5Kdownloads / year

32.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David KaneCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Collection of tutorials for working with 'Positron' and for learning how to apply generative AI when coding with R. Covers scripts, 'Quarto' documents, 'Git', 'GitHub', and 'Quarto' websites. Makes extensive use of the tools in the 'tutorial.helpers' package.

Changes in 0.2.1

Use .onAttach() to download any needed tutorial data which is not currently installed.
Fix errors in tutorials.
Use Cmd/Ctrl + Enter, not Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Enter.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("positron.tutorials", 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("PPBDS/positron.tutorials")

Development version from PPBDS/positron.tutorials. 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-positron.tutorials

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-positron.tutorials

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-positron.tutorials

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: 1.4 min · r-devel-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
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 479 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 1 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,896 · ~18/day · ~544/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36030 days

1.1K90 days

6.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on153 r2u10 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ppbds/positron.tutorials ↗Organization: PPBDS

4Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

3Releases

232Commits

5Commit identities

232 commits · Last activity 2026-04-02 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.1.9001, ahead of CRAN 0.2.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-10-17 · 32026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ppbds/positron.tutorials on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and Windows

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-02

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

renv

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing positron.tutorials adds 74 packages (35 with compiled code, 44 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, pak 3.8 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (2)

tutorial.helpers usethis

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (22)

arrow babynames DBI dbplyr duckdb fs ggrepel gitcreds httr2 knitr leaflet learnr nycflights13 palmerpenguins pkgbuild plotly quarto rsconnect testthat tidycensus tidyverse viridis

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

David Kane

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-03-24
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 4.1 MB

Cite

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citation("positron.tutorials")

Format

Kane, D. (2026). positron.tutorials: Tutorials for Learning 'Positron' and for Using AI (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.positron.tutorials

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for positron.tutorials version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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