R Observatory: Metrics for rcmdcheck version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rcmdcheck

1.4.0Package record

Run 'R CMD check' from 'R' and Capture Results

7packages dependsuggested by 38

2.1Mdownloads / year

81.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Run 'R CMD check' from 'R' and capture the results of the individual checks. Supports running checks in the background, timeouts, pretty printing and comparing check results.

Changes in 1.4.0

cran_check_results() now downloads results in parallel, so it is much faster.
rcmdcheck_process now redirects the standard error to the standard output, to make sure that they are correctly interleaved (#148).
rcmdcheck now puts Rtools on the PATH, via pkgbuild (#111).
rcmdcheck now builds the manual when building the package, if it is needed for \Sexpr{} expressions (#137).
This version fixes a rare race condition that made rcmdcheck fail (#139).
rcmdcheck now safeguards against R deleting the user's home directory via an R CMD build bug (#120).
rcmdcheck can now ignore files in inst/doc when building a package. See the Config/build/clean-inst-doc package option in ?"rcmdcheck-config" (#130).

Show all changes in 1.4.0Hide the rest of the changes in 1.4.0

It is now possible to turn on/off ANSI colors for rcmdcheck only, without affecting the checked package. See ?"rcmdcheck-config" and the RCMDCHECK_NUM_COLORS environment variable and the rcmdcheck.num_colors` option (#119, @jimhester).
print.rcmdcheck() now has a test_output argument and rcmdcheck.test_output global option, to control whether to print the full test output or not. (#121)
RStudio's Pandoc is now on the path during rcmdcheck() and rcmdcheck_process (#109, #132, @dpprdan).
rcmdcheck() now errors if the check process crashes (#110, #163).
rcmdcheck() prints the check ouptut better interactively, especially when the package has multiple test files (#145, #161).
rcmdcheck can now ignore NOTEs, if requested, see ?rcmdcheck for details (#12, #160).
rcmdcheck now always converts its output to UTF-8 from the native encoding. It also handles parsing check output in a non-native encoding better (#152).
rcmdcheck now ignored time stamps when comparing two check results (#128).
rcmdcheck now does not print extra empty lines in the interactive output on GitHub Actions.
rcmdcheck now uses a more robust implementation to extract the session info from the check process (#164).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from r-Lib/rcmdcheck. 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-rcmdcheck

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-rcmdcheck

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-rcmdcheck

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.0

READMEYes · 423 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 11%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #273 · ~5.8K/day · ~175K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

128.9K30 days

430.9K90 days

2.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on93.5K r2u106 autocran219.7K conda_forge344 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/rcmdcheck ↗Organization: r-lib

125Stars

39Forks

29Open issues

4Open PRs

5Releases

457Commits

23Commit identities

r

457 commits · Last activity 2026-09-24 · +1.6% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.4.0.9001, ahead of CRAN 1.4.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 152
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-09-24 · 1192026-10-15 · 125

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/rcmdcheck on 2026-10-18.

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 2026-09-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2023-11-03

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rcmdcheck adds 15 packages (5 with compiled code, 2.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: curl 714 KB, cli 629 KB, digest 231 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (13)

callr cli curl desc digest pkgbuild prettyunits R6 rprojroot sessioninfo (>= 1.1.1)utilswithr xopen

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

covr knitr mockery processx ps rmarkdown svglite testthat webfakes

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

74indirect

Imports 7

Suggested by 38

Show all 45 packagesHide all 45 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

devtools goodpractice risk.assessr packager document checked checkhelper

Suggests, most downloaded first

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.3.0

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2016)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Gabor Csardi

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.2.1

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.4.0Latest
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2021-09-27 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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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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2018-11-10 · diff ↗
1.3.1
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2018-11-06 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2018-09-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
check_details, rcmdcheck_process
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.2.1
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2016-09-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
compare_checks, compare_to_cran, cran_check_flavours, cran_check_results, parse_check, parse_check_url

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-28
Total releases: 8 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 72 KB

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Csárdi, G. (2021). rcmdcheck: Run 'R CMD check' from 'R' and Capture Results (Version 1.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rcmdcheck

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rcmdcheck version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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