R Observatory: Metrics for reticulate version 1.47.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

reticulate

1.47.0Package record

Interface to 'Python'

242packages dependsuggested by 107

2.7Mdownloads / year

54.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tomasz KalinowskiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: RStudio

Interface to 'Python' modules, classes, and functions. When calling into 'Python', R data types are automatically converted to their equivalent 'Python' types. When values are returned from 'Python' to R they are converted back to R types. Compatible with all versions of 'Python' >= 2.7.

Changes in 1.47.0

Python requirements and environments

py_require() now applies late package additions atomically. Failed package-originated additions warn without changing the declared requirements. Its printed summary now shows successful requirement requests in chronological order, including their source and action.
py_require() and uv_run_tool() now accept Date and POSIXt objects for exclude_newer.
py_require() now updates sys.executable and an already-loaded multiprocessing launcher after a live activation, so child Python processes can import newly added packages.
RETICULATE_MAX_CACHE_AGE_DAYS can now configure the maximum age, in days, of reticulate's managed uv cache before it is cleared (#1905).

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Managed uv bootstrapping now works on Windows when R inherits a PowerShell 7 PSModulePath, such as from GitHub Actions pwsh steps.
Pipenv interpreter discovery now uses a located Pipfile even when here cannot resolve a project root (#1909).
Reticulate now treats projects with a pyproject.toml but no [tool.poetry] section, such as uv or PEP 621 projects, as non-Poetry projects (#1900).
Reticulate now retains an expired managed uv cache when it cannot download the installer needed to replace it (#1876).

Conversion

py_to_r() now converts pandas data frames and series containing Arrow-backed string columns (#1910).
r_to_py() now preserves explicit integer row names as the index when converting an R data frame to a pandas data frame (#1924).

Other improvements and fixes

Child processes created by os.fork() now use Python's original output streams when output remapping is enabled.
Python calls to R now convert base R's built-in abort restart to a Python exception instead of jumping to R's top level.
Reticulate now builds with Clang 21 without a spurious -Wnonnull compiler warning (#1917).

Documentation

The py_require() documentation now explains how R_USER_CACHE_DIR configures the location of reticulate's managed uv cache (#1899).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("reticulate", 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("rstudio/reticulate")

Development version from rstudio/reticulate. 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-reticulate

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-reticulate

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-reticulate

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: 4.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-16
WARNING7 OK, 6 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-03-21
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.47.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 8 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.47.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 80 (17 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 22%2 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 7%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 56%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (8)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #240 · ~7.4K/day · ~224.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

173.4K30 days

546.6K90 days

2.7M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on57.8K r2u183 autocran324.6K conda_forge1.9K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/reticulate ↗Organization: rstudio

1,764Stars

348Forks

466Open issues

11Open PRs

24Releases

4,024Commits

95Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 4,024 commits · Last activity 2026-10-16 · +0.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.47.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.47.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 1,7172026-10-14 · 1,764

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/reticulate 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

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-03

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

blame-ignore revs

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-09-10
Pull request: opened by its own account
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-01-29
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-01-29

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.52 commits · Jan 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing reticulate adds 9 packages (6 with compiled code, 3.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (12)

MatrixRcpp RcppTOMLgraphicshere jsonlitemethodspng rappdirsutilsrlang withr

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (7)

callr knitr glue cli rmarkdown pillar testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

242direct

127indirect

Depends 7 · Imports 235

Suggested by 107

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 194 more dependents and 107 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Tomasz Kalinowski

Author, Maintainer since 1.25 (2022) · added in 1.25

JJ Allaire

Author

Yuan Tang

Author, Copyright holder

Kevin Ushey

Author

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Contributor, Copyright holder

Marcus Geelnard

Contributor, Copyright holder

TinyThread library, http://tinythreadpp.bitsnbites.eu/

Ryan Hafen

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.14

Sigrid Keydana

Contributor · added in 1.15

Bryan Lewis

Contributor, Copyright holder

RStudio

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.8

Previously maintained by Kevin Ushey (1.12 to 1.24) and JJ Allaire (0.7 to 1.11.1).

Releases (55)

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-03-14
Total releases: 55 / 9 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 1.6 MB

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Kalinowski, T., RStudio, Allaire, J., Eddelbuettel, D., Geelnard, M., Hafen, R., Keydana, S., Lewis, B., Tang, Y., & Ushey, K. (2026). reticulate: Interface to 'Python' (Version 1.47.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.reticulate

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for reticulate version 1.47.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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