R Observatory: Metrics for refreshr version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

refreshr

0.1.0Package record

Work with Refreshable Datasets that Update their Data Automatically

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joachim ZuckarelliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Connects dataframes/tables with a remote data source. Raw data downloaded from the data source can be further processed and transformed using data preparation code that is also baked into the dataframe/table. Refreshable dataframes can be shared easily (e.g. as R data files). Their users do not need to care about the inner workings of the data update mechanisms.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial version.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("refreshr", 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("jsugarelli/refreshr")

Development version from jsugarelli/refreshr. 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-refreshr

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-refreshr

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-refreshr

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) make_refreshable.Rd:13: Lost braces
    13 | not that quotes need to be escaped (code{\"}).}
       |                                         ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 49 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 416 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 0%5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,282 · ~6/day · ~179/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22630 days

59890 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on68 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jsugarelli/refreshr ↗Account: jsugarelli

2Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

2Commits

1Commit identities

2 commits · Last activity 2023-02-19

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2023-09-10 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jsugarelli/refreshr on 2026-10-21.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing refreshr adds 21 packages (12 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (4)

stringr crayon lubridate dplyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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)

Joachim Zuckarelli

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.0Latest
record
2022-03-01 · current release
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-03-01
Total releases: 1 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 6.2 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("refreshr")

Format

Zuckarelli, J. (2022). refreshr: Work with Refreshable Datasets that Update their Data Automatically (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.refreshr

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 refreshr version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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