R Observatory: Metrics for rixpress version 0.12.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rixpress

0.12.3Package record

Build Reproducible Analytical Pipelines with 'Nix'

0packages depend

5.8Kdownloads / year

37.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bruno RodriguesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗rOpenSci review: issue 706 ↗rOpenSci review: issue 625 ↗

Streamlines the creation of reproducible analytical pipelines using 'default.nix' expressions generated via the 'rix' package for reproducibility. Define derivations in 'R', 'Python' or 'Julia', chain them into a composition of pure functions and build the resulting pipeline using 'Nix' as the underlying end-to-end build tool. Functions to plot the pipeline as a directed acyclic graph are included, as well as functions to load and inspect intermediary results for interactive analysis. User experience heavily inspired by the 'targets' package.

Changes in 0.12.3

Quick fix: fixed a bug that prevented user defined decoders and encoder to work in Python nodes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rixpress", 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/rixpress")

Development version from ropensci/rixpress. 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-rixpress

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-rixpress

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-rixpress

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: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-14

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WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.12.3

READMEYes · 1,286 wordsVignettesYes · 14 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.12.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 35 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 0%26 never run
Exported functions with examples: 81%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (14)

Core rixpress Functions and Usage HTML
Effective Debugging HTML
Encoding, Decoding, and Cross-Language Data Transfer HTML
Importing Data Files HTML
Introductory Concepts HTML
Managing Cached Build Artifacts HTML
Organising Large Projects with Sub-Pipelines HTML
Polyglot Pipelines and Literate Programming HTML
Polyglot Pipelines with Julia and R HTML
Running Pipelines in CI HTML

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How these are measured

Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,976 · ~16/day · ~484/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31230 days

99990 days

5.8K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/rixpress ↗Organization: ropensci

55Stars

3Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

794Commits

5Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 794 commits · Last activity 2026-05-19 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-03 · 442026-08-07 · 55

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

14 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/rixpress on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (3)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-16 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Nix

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

Lint workflow

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Aiderfirst seen 2025-04-27
Named in .Rbuildignore: .aider*
Named in .gitignore: .aider*
GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-08-21
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 12 by its own account

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

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rixpress adds 13 packages (9 with compiled code, 9.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: igraph 4.8 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (4)

cli igraph jsonlite processx

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

chronicler dplyr ggdag ggplot2 knitr maybe mockery reticulate rix rmarkdown testthat usethis visNetwork

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Bruno Rodrigues

Author, Maintainer since 0.10.0 (2025)

William Michael Landau

Reviewer

William reviewed the package (v. 0.2.0) for rOpenSci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/706>

Anthony Martinez

Reviewer

Anthony reviewed the package (v. 0.2.0) for rOpenSci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/625>

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Landau

no longer listed · 0.10.0 to 0.12.3

Releases (5)

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0.12.3Latest
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2026-05-19 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.12.2
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2026-02-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
rxp_check_chronicles
0.11.2
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2026-01-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
rxp_pipeline
0.10.1
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2025-10-14 · diff ↗
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2025-10-07
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-10-07
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.2 MB

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Reproducible Research

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Format

Rodrigues, B., Landau, W. M., & Martinez, A. (2026). rixpress: Build Reproducible Analytical Pipelines with 'Nix' (Version 0.12.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rixpress

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rixpress version 0.12.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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