R Observatory: Metrics for potions version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

potions

0.2.0Package record

Easy Options Management

1packages depend

4.2Kdownloads / year

79.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin WestgateCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Store and retrieve data from options() using syntax derived from the 'here' package. 'potions' makes it straightforward to update and retrieve options, either in the workspace or during package development, without overwriting global options.

Changes in 0.2.0

move to {purrr} as main engine for list management
remove NSE capabilities for consistency with {purrr} and {here}
pour() returns a list by default, rather than a vector

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("potions", 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("AtlasOfLivingAustralia/potions")

Development version from AtlasOfLivingAustralia/potions. 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-potions

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-potions

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-potions

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: 1.2 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 0.2.0

READMEYes · 185 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 40%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Quick start guide HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,727 · ~12/day · ~350/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33430 days

1K90 days

4.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on79 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

atlasoflivingaustralia/potions ↗Organization: AtlasOfLivingAustralia

2Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

38Commits

1Commit identities

rstats

38 commits · Last activity 2023-08-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-03 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/atlasoflivingaustralia/potions on 2026-10-11.

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

pkgdown site last built 2023-08-23

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing potions adds 15 packages (11 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

jsonlite lobstr purrr rrapply rlang stringi yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr pkgload rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

galah

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Martin Westgate

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Releases (2)

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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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2023-08-23 · current release · diff ↗
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2023-05-02
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-02
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: MPL-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 409 KB

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Package Development and Maintenance

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("potions")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 potions version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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