R Observatory: Metrics for praise version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

praise

1.0.0Package record

Praise Users

3packages dependsuggested by 1

6.9Mdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gabor CsardiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Build friendly R packages that praise their users if they have done something good, or they just need it to feel better.

Changes in 1.0.0

First public release.

From inst/NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("praise", 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("gaborcsardi/praise")

Development version from gaborcsardi/praise. 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-praise

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-praise

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-praise

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Gabor Csardi <csardi.gabor@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Gabor",
                      family = "Csardi",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "csardi.gabor@gmail.com"),
               person(given = "Sindre",
                      family = "Sorhus",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 52 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.9M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #116 · ~19K/day · ~576.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

456.7K30 days

1.6M90 days

6.9M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on112.4K r2u146 autocran364K conda_forge5.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rladies/praise ↗Organization: rladies

Moved from gaborcsardi/praise.

148Stars

172Forks

7Open issues

22Open PRs

1Releases

80Commits

49Commit identities

80 commits · Last activity 2025-09-19 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 68%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-02-18 · 1462026-07-07 · 148

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/gaborcsardi/praise on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Governance and community (2)

Code of conduct (inherited from gaborcsardi)

Funding links: paypal.com

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-03-06
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

328indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

testthat goodpractice pkgcheck

Suggests, most downloaded first

templr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

Gabor Csardi

Sindre Sorhus

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2015)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0.0Latest
record
2015-08-11 · current release
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-08-11
Total releases: 1 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 6.0 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("praise")

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 praise version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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