R Observatory: Metrics for pracpac version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pracpac

0.2.0Package record

Practical 'R' Packaging in 'Docker'

0packages depend

7.2Kdownloads / year

77.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by VP NagrajCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Streamline the creation of 'Docker' images with 'R' packages and dependencies embedded. The 'pracpac' package provides a 'usethis'-like interface to creating Dockerfiles with dependencies managed by 'renv'. The 'pracpac' functionality is described in Nagraj and Turner (2023) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2303.07876.

Changes in 0.2.0

New Features

Shiny use case documentation

As of this release, pracpac now includes documentation for the "shiny" use case. The package now features a vignette dedicated to the templating a Docker image to host a Shiny web app. To motivate the example usage, there is now also another example package in the pracpac source at inst/ocf.

Bug Fixes

renv_deps() and strictly versioned package depedencies

Previously the renv_deps() function was not able to parse dependencies in the DESCRIPTION file that stated strict versions of packages. The function can now handle this case, such that all dependencies in DESCRIPTION (whether they include a strict version number or not) will be passed into the renv snapshot procedure.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pracpac", 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("signaturescience/pracpac")

Development version from signaturescience/pracpac. 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-pracpac

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-pracpac

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-pracpac

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-21
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-17
OK13 OK2026-08-05

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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 · 338 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

basic-usage HTML
use-cases HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

7.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,742 · ~20/day · ~597/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36130 days

1K90 days

7.2K1 year

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Also on69 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

signaturescience/pracpac ↗Organization: signaturescience

40Stars

1Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

289Commits

2Commit identities

289 commits · Last activity 2023-06-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
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

2025-09-26 · 362026-07-07 · 40

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/signaturescience/pracpac 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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-06-29 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2023-06-29

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pracpac adds 13 packages (6 with compiled code, 4.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: renv 1.5 MB, fs 1.4 MB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (6)

magrittr glue fs rprojroot renv pkgbuild

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rmarkdown knitr testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

VP Nagraj

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023), Author

Stephen Turner

Author

Signature Science, LLC.

Copyright holder

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
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-06-19
0.2.0Latest
record
2023-06-19 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-06-16
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0
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2023-03-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-03-21
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 303 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pracpac")

Format

Nagraj, V., Signature Science, LLC., & Turner, S. (2023). pracpac: Practical 'R' Packaging in 'Docker' (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pracpac

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 pracpac 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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