R Observatory: Metrics for rlang version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rlang

1.3.0

Functions for Base Types and Core R and 'Tidyverse' Features

3,947packages depend

27.7Mdownloads / year

84.8%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Lionel HenryFirst published 2017-05-0644 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A toolbox for working with base types, core R features like the condition system, and core 'Tidyverse' features like tidy evaluation.

Install

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

install.packages("rlang", 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-lib/rlang")

Development version from r-lib/rlang. 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-rlang

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-rlang

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-rlang

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 5.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.07

84.8%

Coverage · measured lines

99%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-12
8 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-08-09
8 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-07-04
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-24
9 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-19
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 21 earlier snapshots

WARNING2026-06-17
10 OK · 2 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-15
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-13
9 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-09
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
9 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-05-24
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-14
9 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-05-11
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-10
9 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-05-08
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-04
8 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-30
9 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-28
8 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-24
10 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-16
9 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-11
10 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-04-09
9 OK · 4 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-28
4 OK · 5 NOTE · 4 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-25
4 OK · 5 NOTE · 5 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-22
3 OK · 5 NOTE · 5 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-10
4 OK · 5 NOTE · 5 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 298 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 28%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

27.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1 · ~76K/day · ~2.3M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.6M30 days

7.6M90 days

27.7M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on314.9K r2u1.1K autocran2.1M conda_forge2.2K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/rlang

585Stars

156Forks

133Open issues

23Open PRs

42Releases

5,996Commits

96Contributors

r

5,996 commits · Last activity 2026-08-05 · +1.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-14 · 5292026-08-14 · 585

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/rlang on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirRStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Show all practices

Governance and community (1)

CODEOWNERS

Git structural (1)

blame-ignore revs

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: copilot on 2026-01-26

copilotclaude

Most recent: claude on 2026-03-30

Evidence

copilot: on 2026-01-26 · evidence A, PR · sole bot-author seen
claude: on 2026-03-30 · evidence D
agents-md: on 2026-06-19 · evidence D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (18)

cli covr crayon desc fs glue knitr magrittrmethodspillar pkgload rmarkdownstatstestthat tibble usethis vctrs withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3,947direct

9,415indirect

and 3,899 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Lionel Henry

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Lionel Henry

Author, Maintainer

Hadley Wickham

Author

Copyright holders (3)

Posit, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.1.0

mikefc

Copyright holder · added in 0.4.10

Yann Collet

Copyright holder · added in 0.4.10

Funders (1)

Posit, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.1.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1 to 1.0.6

mikefc mikefc@coolbutuseless.com

no longer listed · 1.3.0

Package Timeline

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

1.3.0Latest
2026-07-05 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.0
2026-04-06 · diff ↗
1.1.7
2026-01-09 · diff ↗
1.1.6
2025-04-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.5
2025-01-17 · diff ↗
1.1.4
2024-06-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.3
2024-01-10 · diff ↗
1.1.2
2023-11-04 · diff ↗
1.1.1
2023-04-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.0
2023-03-14 · diff ↗
1.0.6
2022-09-24 · diff ↗
1.0.5
2022-08-31 · diff ↗

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1.0.4
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1.0.3
2022-06-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-03-04 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2022-02-03 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2022-01-26 · diff ↗
0.4.12
2021-10-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-05-01 · diff ↗
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2020-12-30 · diff ↗
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2020-05-02 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-03-01 · diff ↗
0.4.4
2020-01-28 · diff ↗
0.4.3
2020-01-24 · diff ↗
0.4.2
2019-11-23 · diff ↗
0.4.1
2019-10-24 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2019-06-25 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.4
2019-04-07 · diff ↗
0.3.3
2019-03-29 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2019-03-21 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2019-01-08 · diff ↗
0.3.0.1
2018-10-25 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2018-10-22 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2018-08-16 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2018-05-30 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
2018-02-20 · diff ↗
0.1.6
2017-12-21 · diff ↗
0.1.4
2017-11-05 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2017-08-09 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2017-05-18 · diff ↗
0.1
2017-05-06
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-06
Total releases: 44 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 752 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("rlang")

Format

Henry, L., Posit, PBC, mikefc, Collet, Y., & Wickham, H. (2026). rlang: Functions for Base Types and Core R and 'Tidyverse' Features (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rlang

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rlang version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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