R Observatory: Metrics for reformulas version 0.4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

reformulas

0.4.4Package record

Machinery for Processing Random Effect Formulas

46packages dependsuggested by 16

5.3Mdownloads / year

80.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ben BolkerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Takes formulas including random-effects components (formatted as in 'lme4', 'glmmTMB', etc.) and processes them. Includes various helper functions.

Changes in 0.4.4

machinery works with Formula objects where length(length(f)) > 1

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("reformulas", 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("bbolker/reformulas")

Development version from bbolker/reformulas. 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-reformulas

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-reformulas

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-reformulas

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: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-15
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 0.4.4

READMEYes · 109 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.4Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16 (3 internal)
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 87%
Help pages citing references: 6% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

5.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #150 · ~14.6K/day · ~442.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

433.6K30 days

1.2M90 days

5.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on90.5K r2u7 autocran174.4K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

bbolker/reformulas ↗Account: bbolker

7Stars

3Forks

7Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

102Commits

3Commit identities

102 commits · Last activity 2026-07-28 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.4.5, ahead of CRAN 0.4.4 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 28
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-28 · 52026-07-07 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bbolker/reformulas on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing reformulas adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 1.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rbibutils 1.1 MB, Rdpack 370 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

statsmethodsMatrixRdpack

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

lme4 tinytest glmmTMB Formula

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

46direct

1,431indirect

Imports 46

Suggested by 16

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

insight performance

and 14 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Ben Bolker

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2024)

Anna Ly

Contributor · added in 0.4.3

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.4Latest
record
2026-02-02 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.3.1
record
2026-01-08 · diff ↗
0.4.3
record
2025-12-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
formatVC, format_corr, format_sdvar, get_sd
0.4.2
record
2025-10-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
expandGrpVar, randint
0.4.1
record
2025-05-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.0
record
2024-11-03 · diff ↗
0.3.0
record
2024-06-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
expandDoubleVerts, isNested, nobars_
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.0
record
2024-03-13
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-03-13
Total releases: 8 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 83 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("reformulas")

Format

Bolker, B., & Ly, A. (2026). reformulas: Machinery for Processing Random Effect Formulas (Version 0.4.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.reformulas

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 reformulas version 0.4.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →