R Observatory: Metrics for rjtools version 1.0.18.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rjtools

1.0.18.1Package record

Preparing, Checking, and Submitting Articles to the 'R Journal'

1packages depend

4.4Kdownloads / year

12.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Di CookCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Create an 'R Journal' 'Rmarkdown' template article, that will generate html and pdf versions of your paper. Check that the paper folder has all the required components needed for submission. Examples of 'R Journal' publications can be found at https://journal.r-project.org.

Install

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

install.packages("rjtools", 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("rjournal/rjtools")

Development version from rjournal/rjtools. 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-rjtools

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-rjtools

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-rjtools

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: 1.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-21
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-17
OK13 OK2026-08-05

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-04
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-03
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.18.1

READMEYes · 302 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.0.18.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 12 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 14%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 71%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,999 · ~12/day · ~369/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

42530 days

1.2K90 days

4.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on947 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

rjournal/rjtools ↗Organization: rjournal

39Stars

14Forks

44Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

442Commits

16Commit identities

442 commits · Last activity 2026-07-20 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.21, ahead of CRAN 1.0.18.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 22
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-08-13 · 382026-07-07 · 39

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rjournal/rjtools 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)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rjtools adds 59 packages (32 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, hunspell 3.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (19)

distill stringr purrr hunspell fs cli glue whisker xfun callr rlang yaml yesnoutilstinytex bookdown BiocManager here rmarkdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr pdftools rstudioapi testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

texor

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Di Cook

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.9 (2022)

Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 1.0.10

H. Sherry Zhang

Author

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.18.1Latest
record
2025-09-23 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.18
record
2025-01-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.13
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2024-04-16 · diff ↗
1.0.12
record
2023-10-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
check_abstract_before_intro, prepare_submission

added 10 exports
check_abstract, check_bib_doi, check_csl, check_date, check_folder_structure, check_pkg_label, get_orcid, prep_submission, rjournal_article, submit_rjournal
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.10
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2023-03-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
check_structure
1.0.9
record
2022-11-14
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-11-14
Total releases: 6 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 0.7 KB / 1 file
Download size: 3.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rjtools")

Format

Cook, D., Dervieux, C., Kobakian, S., O'Hara-Wild, M., Urbanek, S., & Zhang, H. S. (2025). rjtools: Preparing, Checking, and Submitting Articles to the 'R Journal' (Version 1.0.18.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rjtools

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 rjtools version 1.0.18.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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