R Observatory: Metrics for proffer version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

proffer

0.2.2Package record

Profile R Code and Visualize with 'Pprof'

0packages depend

7Kdownloads / year

48.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by William Michael LandauCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Like similar profiling tools, the 'proffer' package automatically detects sources of slowness in R code. The distinguishing feature of 'proffer' is its utilization of 'pprof', which supplies interactive visualizations that are efficient and easy to interpret. Behind the scenes, the 'profile' package converts native Rprof() data to a protocol buffer that 'pprof' understands. For the documentation of 'proffer', visit https://r-prof.github.io/proffer/. To learn about the implementations and methodologies of 'pprof', 'profile', and protocol buffers, visit https://github.com/google/pprof. https://protobuf.dev, and https://github.com/r-prof/profile, respectively.

Changes in 0.2.2

Add seconds_timeout.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("proffer", 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("r-prof/proffer")

Development version from r-prof/proffer. 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-proffer

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-proffer

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

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
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check (10 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 75%
Help pages citing references: 8%

How these are measured

Downloads

7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,241 · ~19/day · ~582/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44730 days

1.2K90 days

7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on103 r2u81 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-prof/proffer ↗Organization: r-prof

89Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

12Releases

232Commits

3Commit identities

232 commits · Last activity 2025-06-19 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 5

Stars over time

2025-09-16 · 882026-07-07 · 89

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-prof/proffer 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

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-06-19 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing proffer adds 22 packages (13 with compiled code, 8.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (9)

cli parallelly pingr processx profile R.utils RProtoBuf (>= 0.4.14)utilswithr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

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)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.2 (2019)

Eli Lilly and Company

Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Landau

no longer listed · 0.0.2 to 0.2.2

Releases (9)

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random_port
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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added 4 exports
install_go, pprof_path, pprof_sitrep, test_pprof
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-12-20
Total releases: 9 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 676 KB

Appears in task views

High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("proffer")

Format

Landau, W. M., & Eli Lilly and Company, . (2024). proffer: Profile R Code and Visualize with 'Pprof' (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.proffer

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

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 proffer version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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