R Observatory: Metrics for rhub version 2.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rhub

2.0.1Package record

Tools for R Package Developers

1packages dependsuggested by 8

118.9Kdownloads / year

99.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: R Consortium

R-hub v2 uses GitHub Actions to run 'R CMD check' and similar package checks. The 'rhub' package helps you set up R-hub v2 for your R package, and start running checks.

Changes in 2.0.1

rhub now avoids a message from recent versions of the R6 package, about the finalize method of an R6 class having to be private.
Using platform aliases works correctly now when selecting platforms.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rhub", 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-hub/rhub")

Development version from r-hub/rhub. 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-rhub

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-rhub

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-rhub

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 22 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 30%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

118.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,922 · ~326/day · ~9.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.1K30 days

10K90 days

118.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1K r2u5 autocran1.3K conda_forge156 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-hub/rhub ↗Organization: r-hub

368Stars

56Forks

46Open issues

1Open PRs

6Releases

390Commits

30Commit identities

rrstatsr-package

390 commits · Last activity 2025-03-07 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.0.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.0.1 (checked 2026-10-18) · Discussions: 9 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 11
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-21 · 3622026-09-18 · 368

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-hub/rhub 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 2025-03-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-03-07

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rhub adds 25 packages (13 with compiled code, 5.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (16)

callr cli curl desc gert glue gitcreds jsonlite pkgbuild processx rappdirs rematch R6 rprojrootutilswhoami

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

asciicast debugme knitr mockery pillar rmarkdown testthat webfakes withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 8

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

packager

Suggests, most downloaded first

umx caretEnsemble stencilaschema Spectran shiny.webawesome fortniteR ssel modernBoot

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2017)

Maëlle Salmon

Author · added in 1.1.0

R Consortium

Funder · added in 1.1.0

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.0.1Latest
record
2025-03-06 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.0.0
record
2024-04-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
rc_list_local_tokens, rc_list_repos, rc_new_token, rc_submit, rhub_check, rhub_doctor, rhub_platforms, rhub_setup
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.2
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2022-08-31 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1.1
record
2019-04-08 · diff ↗
1.1.0
record
2019-03-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
rhub_check, rhub_check_for_cran, rhub_check_list

added 4 exports
check_on_solaris, get_check, local_check_linux, local_check_linux_images
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.2
record
2017-11-02
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-02
Total releases: 6 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 157 KB

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Format

Csárdi, G., R Consortium, & Salmon, M. (2025). rhub: Tools for R Package Developers (Version 2.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rhub

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rhub version 2.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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