R Observatory: Metrics for qs version 0.27.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-01-17. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected despite reminders

Details below reflect version 0.27.3, its last release before removal.

qs

0.27.3

Quick Serialization of R Objects

11packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Travers Ching31 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functions for quickly writing and reading any R object to and from disk.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/qs/qs_0.27.3.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "qs_0.27.3.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.27.3) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("qsbase/qs")

Development version from qsbase/qs. 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-qs

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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-qs

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.98

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,034 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 96%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 86%
References docs: 8%

Downloads

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.4K r2u18 autocran31.1K conda_forge56 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (3)

Rcpp RApiSerialize stringfish

LinkingTo (4)

Rcpp RApiSerialize stringfish BH

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat dplyr data.table

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

–indirect (not tracked)

baseballr cfbfastR drake easyr fastRhockey finnts jagstargets mrgsim.parallel oddsapiR saros.base spectr

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Maintainer (1)

Travers Ching

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Travers Ching

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (8)

Yann Collet

Contributor, Copyright holder

Reichardt Tino

Contributor, Copyright holder

Skibinski Przemyslaw

Contributor, Copyright holder

Mori Yuta

Contributor, Copyright holder

Romain Francois

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.13.1

Francesc Alted

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.14.1

Bryce Chamberlain

Contributor · added in 0.23.2

Salim Brüggemann

Contributor · added in 0.25.2

Copyright holders (8)

Travers Ching

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Yann Collet

Contributor, Copyright holder

Reichardt Tino

Contributor, Copyright holder

Skibinski Przemyslaw

Contributor, Copyright holder

Mori Yuta

Contributor, Copyright holder

Romain Francois

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.13.1

Francesc Alted

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.14.1

Facebook, Inc.

Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (3)

R Core Team

no longer listed · 0.23.6 to 0.24.1

Gentleman Robert

no longer listed · 0.23.6 to 0.24.1

Ihaka Ross

no longer listed · 0.23.6 to 0.24.1

Package Timeline

31 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-01-17
issues were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.27.3
2025-03-11 · diff ↗
0.27.2
2024-10-01 · diff ↗
0.26.3
2024-05-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.26.1
2024-03-09 · diff ↗
0.25.7
2023-12-06 · diff ↗
0.25.6
2023-11-28 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.25.5
2023-02-22 · diff ↗
0.25.4
2022-08-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.25.3
2022-02-22 · diff ↗
0.25.2
2021-12-07 · diff ↗

Show 25 earlier events

0.25.1.1
2021-11-05 · diff ↗
0.25.1
2021-07-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.24.1
2021-03-07 · diff ↗
0.23.6
2021-02-08 · diff ↗
0.23.5
2021-01-06 · diff ↗
0.23.4
2020-11-25 · diff ↗
0.23.3
2020-10-05 · diff ↗
0.23.2
2020-07-16 · diff ↗
0.22.1
2020-06-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.21.2
2020-03-10 · diff ↗
0.21.1
2020-02-07 · diff ↗
0.20.2
2019-12-02 · diff ↗
0.19.1
2019-10-04 · diff ↗
0.18.3
2019-08-21 · diff ↗
0.17.3
2019-07-08 · diff ↗
0.17.1
2019-06-25 · diff ↗
0.16.1
2019-05-17 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.15.1
2019-04-07 · diff ↗
0.14.1
2019-03-02 · diff ↗
0.13.1
2019-02-13 · diff ↗
0.12
2019-02-08
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

Total releases: 31
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Bundled data: 13 KB / 1 file
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("qs")

Format

Ching, T., Collet, Y., Facebook, Inc., Tino, R., Przemyslaw, S., Yuta, M., Francois, R., Alted, F., Chamberlain, B., & Brüggemann, S. (n.d.). qs: Quick Serialization of R Objects (Version 0.27.3) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 19, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=qs

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 qs version 0.27.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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