R Observatory: Metrics for profvis version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

profvis

0.4.0Package record

Interactive Visualizations for Profiling R Code

2packages dependsuggested by 8

2.2Mdownloads / year

42.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Interactive visualizations for profiling R code.

Changes in 0.4.0

profvis now requires R 4.0.0. The bundled version of jQuery has been upgraded to 3.7.1 (@hedsnz, #139) and the bundled highlight.js has been updated to the 11.10.0 (#140). It no longer longer requires purrr or stringr, and no longer suggests ggplot2, devtools, knitr, or rmarkdown.
provis() uses a new technique for trimming uninteresting frames from the stack (#130). This requires a new evaluation model where the code you supply to profvis() is turned into the body of a zero-argument anonymous function that is then called by profvis. This subtly changes the semantics of evaluation, but the primary effect is that if you create variables inside of the profiled code they will no longer be available outside of it.
profvis() now uses elapsed time where possible (#72).
profvis() now uses doubles instead of integers (#114).

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The CSS for profvis code is scoped so that it does not affect other blocks of code, such as those from RMarkdown or Quarto (@wch, #140).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("profvis", 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-lib/profvis")

Development version from r-lib/profvis. 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-profvis

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-profvis

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-profvis

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: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-29
OK13 OK2026-04-30

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

WebsiteYes · pkgdown

Vignettes (1)

Getting started with profvis HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #243 · ~6.1K/day · ~184.4K/mo

profvis Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

161K30 days

542.1K90 days

2.2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on103.2K r2u146 autocran211.4K conda_forge91 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/profvis ↗Organization: r-lib

314Stars

39Forks

18Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

628Commits

18Commit identities

628 commits · Last activity 2026-02-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.4.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.4.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 789
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/profvis 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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-09-20

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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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.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-02-13
Pull request: opened by its own account

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing profvis adds 28 packages (16 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (3)

htmlwidgets rlang vctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

htmltools knitr rmarkdown shiny testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

74indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 8

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

devtools RobinHood

Suggests, most downloaded first

ggplot2 gtable arl pureseqtmr debrief cramR icmstate tidycreel

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2024) · added in 0.4.0

Winston Chang

Author

Javier Luraschi

Author

Timothy Mastny

Author · added in 0.3.6

Mike Bostock

Contributor, Copyright holder

D3 library

D3 contributors

Contributor

D3 library

Ivan Sagalaev

Contributor, Copyright holder

highlight.js library

jQuery contributors

Contributor, Copyright holder

jQuery library; authors listed in inst/htmlwidgets/lib/jquery/AUTHORS.txt

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.4.0

jQuery Foundation

Copyright holder

jQuery library

Previously maintained by Winston Chang (0.3.2 to 0.3.8).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.3.2 to 0.3.8

Releases (8)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.0Latest
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2024-09-20 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.8
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2023-05-02 · diff ↗
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
0.3.7
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2020-11-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.6
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2019-05-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
parse_rprof, profvis_server, profvis_ui
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.5
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2018-02-22 · diff ↗
0.3.4
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2017-12-12 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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0.3.3
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2017-01-14 · diff ↗
0.3.2
record
2016-05-19
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-05-19
Total releases: 8 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 | file LICENSE in 0.4.0
Download size: 294 KB

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High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

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Format

Wickham, H., Posit Software, PBC, Bostock, M., Chang, W., D3 contributors, , Luraschi, J., Mastny, T., Sagalaev, I., jQuery Foundation, , & jQuery contributors, . (2024). profvis: Interactive Visualizations for Profiling R Code (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.profvis

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for profvis version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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