R Observatory: Metrics for rix version 0.18.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rix

0.18.2

Reproducible Data Science Environments with 'Nix'

1packages depend

6.3Kdownloads / year

32.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Bruno RodriguesFirst published 2024-09-2513 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Simplifies the creation of reproducible data science environments using the 'Nix' package manager, as described in Dolstra (2006) <ISBN 90-393-4130-3>. The included `rix()` function generates a complete description of the environment as a `default.nix` file, which can then be built using 'Nix'. This results in project specific software environments with pinned versions of R, packages, linked system dependencies, and other tools or programming languages such as Python or Julia. Additional helpers make it easy to run R code in 'Nix' software environments for testing and production.

Install

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

install.packages("rix", 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("ropensci/rix")

Development version from ropensci/rix. 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-rix

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-rix

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-rix

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.92

32.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-13
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-10
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-11
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

WARNING2026-05-10
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,752 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 33%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,835 · ~17/day · ~527/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24930 days

85190 days

6.3K1 year

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Also on204 r2u22 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/rix

375Stars

26Forks

16Open issues

4Open PRs

4Releases

2,617Commits

21Contributors

nixpeer-reviewedreproducibilityreproducible-research

License GPL-3.0 · 2,617 commits · Last activity 2026-08-10 · +0.8% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 3722026-08-07 · 375

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/rix on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Nix

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Show all practices

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

lintr

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (5)

codetoolscurl jsonlite sysutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

rixpress

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Bruno Rodrigues

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Bruno Rodrigues

Author, Maintainer

Philipp Baumann

Author

Contributors (5)

Richard J. Acton

Contributor · added in 0.14.3

Elio Campitelli

Contributor · added in 0.14.3

Michael Heming

Contributor · added in 0.14.3

László Kupcsik

Contributor · added in 0.14.3

Jordi Rosell

Contributor · added in 0.14.3

Reviewers (2)

David Watkins

Reviewer

Jacob Wujiciak-Jens

Reviewer

Package Timeline

13 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.18.2Latest
2026-02-18 · current release · diff ↗
0.18.1
2026-01-28 · diff ↗
0.17.4
2026-01-16 · diff ↗
0.17.2
2025-09-11 · diff ↗
0.16.0
2025-04-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.15.7
2025-03-17 · diff ↗
0.15.5
2025-03-01 · diff ↗
0.15.2
2025-02-15 · diff ↗
0.14.4
2025-01-21 · diff ↗
0.14.3
2025-01-10 · diff ↗
0.12.4
2024-10-02 · diff ↗
0.12.3
2024-09-26 · diff ↗
0.12.1
2024-09-25
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-09-25
Total releases: 13 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 2.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Rodrigues, B., Acton, R. J., Baumann, P., Campitelli, E., Heming, M., Kupcsik, L., Rosell, J., Watkins, D., & Wujiciak-Jens, J. (2026). rix: Reproducible Data Science Environments with 'Nix' (Version 0.18.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rix

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rix version 0.18.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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