R Observatory: Metrics for reader version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

reader

1.1.0Package record

Suite of Functions to Flexibly Read Data from Files

1packages dependsuggested by 2

29.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicholas CooperCRAN page ↗

A set of functions to simplify reading data from files. The main function, reader(), should read most common R datafile types without needing any parameters except the filename. Other functions provide simple ways of handling file paths and extensions, and automatically detecting file format and structure.

Install

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

install.packages("reader", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-reader

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-reader

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-reader

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: 58 s · r-oldrel-macos-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 1.1.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 20 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%19 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

29.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,782 · ~81/day · ~2.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.9K30 days

5.4K90 days

29.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on197 r2u3 autocran1.3K conda_forge92 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing reader adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 77 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: NCmisc 77 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 2.10utilsNCmisc

Imports (4)

grDevicesgraphicsstatsmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ie2misc

Suggests, most downloaded first

ecocomDP ie2miscdata

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Nicholas Cooper

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2013)

Releases (6)

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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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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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
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-09-21
Total releases: 6 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 27 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("reader")

Format

Cooper, N. (2026). reader: Suite of Functions to Flexibly Read Data from Files (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.reader

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

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 reader version 1.1.0 [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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