R Observatory: Metrics for ravel version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ravel

0.1.4Package record

AI Copilot for R Analysis Workflows in 'RStudio'

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

43.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Markuss SauleCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An AI copilot for R users in 'RStudio' and Posit workflows with active-editor, workspace, object, console, plot, and git-aware context. Provides statistical helpers for interpreting lm() and glm() models, stages code and file actions before execution, drafts reproducible 'Quarto' content, and connects to official provider APIs or CLIs for 'OpenAI', 'GitHub Copilot', 'Gemini', and 'Anthropic'.

Changes in 0.1.4

Prevented automated checks and non-interactive sessions from opening the operating-system keyring by default. Interactive RStudio use retains optional persistent keyring storage; automated use should supply environment variables.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ravel", 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("msaule/ravel")

Development version from msaule/ravel. 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-ravel

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-ravel

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-ravel

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: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK3 OK2026-04-04

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 35 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Ravel MVP Walkthrough HTML
Ravel Showcase Workflows HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,234 · ~6/day · ~195/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19930 days

74490 days

2.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on57 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

msaule/ravel ↗Account: msaule

7Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

20Commits

1Commit identities

aianalyticscopilotpositquartorrstudiostatistics

20 commits · Last activity 2026-06-28 · +16.7% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.1.2) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-04-07 · 12026-10-23 · 7

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/msaule/ravel on 2026-10-21.

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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-28 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-28, before release 0.1.4 (2026-08-03)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrLint workflow

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Codexfirst seen on or before 2026-03-25
Commits: some crediting it in the message, count not recorded

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ravel adds 42 packages (26 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (11)

cli digest httr2 jsonlite miniUI rstudioapi shinystatstibbletoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

keyring knitr lintr pkgdown rcmdcheck rmarkdown 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 (1)

Markuss Saule

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.1.4Latest
record
2026-08-03 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.2
record
2026-06-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ravel_mcp_tool, ravel_mcp_tools
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.1
record
2026-04-03
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-03
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 67 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ravel")

Format

Saule, M. (2026). ravel: AI Copilot for R Analysis Workflows in 'RStudio' (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ravel

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

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 ravel version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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