R Observatory: Metrics for rappdirs version 0.3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rappdirs

0.3.4Package record

Application Directories: Determine Where to Save Data, Caches, and Logs

118packages dependsuggested by 20

12.8Mdownloads / year

96.6%test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

An easy way to determine which directories on the users computer you should use to save data, caches and logs. A port of Python's 'Appdirs' (https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs) to R.

Changes in 0.3.4

Upkeep

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rappdirs", 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/rappdirs")

Development version from r-lib/rappdirs. 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-rappdirs

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-rappdirs

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-rappdirs

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

1ERROR12OK

Check messages

ERRORtestsr-release-macos-arm64

Running ‘testthat.R’ [0s/1s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Complete output:
  > # This file is part of the standard setup for testthat.
  > # It is recommended that you do not modify it.
  > #
  > # Where should you do additional test configuration?
  > # Learn more about the roles of various files in:
  > # * https://r-pkgs.org/testing-design.html#sec-tests-files-overview
  > # * https://testthat.r-lib.org/articles/special-files.html
  > 
  > library(testthat)
  > library(rappdirs)
  > 
  > # ensure CRAN settings don't affect tests
  > Sys.unsetenv("R_USER_DATA_DIR")
  > Sys.unsetenv("R_USER_CONFIG_DIR")
  > Sys.unsetenv("R_USER_CACHE_DIR")
  > 
  > test_check("rappdirs")
  [ FAIL 0 | WARN 0 | SKIP 3 | PASS 45 ]
  
  ══ Skipped tests (3) ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
  Error in base::nchar(wide_chars$test, type = "width") : 
    cannot open file '/Volumes/Builds/packages/sonoma-arm64/Rlib/4.6/cli/R/sysdata.rdb': No such file or directory
  Calls: test_check ... unicode_pre -> setup_unicode_width_fix -> <Anonymous>
  Execution halted

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERRORNow
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-27
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.4

READMEYes · 199 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

12.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #62 · ~35.1K/day · ~1.1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

907.1K30 days

2.9M90 days

12.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on327.8K r2u4 autocran1.5M conda_forge816 bioconda20.6K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/rappdirs ↗Organization: r-lib

92Stars

14Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

178Commits

8Commit identities

rappdir

178 commits · Last activity 2026-01-20 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.3.4 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 892026-07-07 · 92

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/rappdirs on 2026-10-25.

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 (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-20

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

covr roxygen2 testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

118direct

4,034indirect

Imports 118

Suggested by 20

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 70 more dependents and 20 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Translator, Author

Author

Author

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Copyright holder

R/appdir.r, R/cache.r, R/data.r, R/log.r translated from appdirs

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.4

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.3 to 0.3.3

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.4Latest
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2026-01-17 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.3
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2021-01-31 · diff ↗
0.3.2
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2021-01-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.3.1
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2016-03-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

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0.3
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2014-09-02
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-02
Total releases: 5 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Copyright: Original python appdirs module copyright (c) 2010 ActiveState Software Inc. R port copyright Hadley Wickham, Posit, PBC. See file LICENSE for details.
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 11 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rappdirs")

Format

Wickham, H., ActiveState, Posit Software, PBC, Csardi, G., Davis, T., Jefferis, G., Mick, T., Petrisor, E., & Ratnakumar, S. (2026). rappdirs: Application Directories: Determine Where to Save Data, Caches, and Logs (Version 0.3.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rappdirs

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

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rappdirs version 0.3.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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