R Observatory: Metrics for rlowdb version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rlowdb

0.2.0Package record

Lightweight JSON-Based Database

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

68.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mohamed El Fodil IhaddadenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The goal of 'rlowdb' is to provide a lightweight, file-based JSON database. Inspired by 'LowDB' in 'JavaScript', it generates an intuitive interface for storing, retrieving, updating, and querying structured data without requiring a full-fledged database system. Ideal for prototyping, small-scale applications, and lightweight data management needs.

Changes in 0.2.0

Adding the verbose parameter which when set to TRUE will print informative information to the console.
Adding the auto_commit parameter which when set to FALSE, the user will have to use the commit method in order to reflect the data changes into the JSON file.
Adding new methods:
count_values
list_keys
rename_collection
set_auto_commit
set_verbose
status

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rlowdb", 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("feddelegrand7/rlowdb")

Development version from feddelegrand7/rlowdb. 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-rlowdb

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-rlowdb

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-rlowdb

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: 1.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-16
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-15
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 631 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,021 · ~6/day · ~169/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

18230 days

52390 days

2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on66 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

feddelegrand7/rlowdb ↗Account: feddelegrand7

13Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

50Commits

3Commit identities

50 commits · Last activity 2025-05-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-21 · 102026-09-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/feddelegrand7/rlowdb on 2026-10-22.

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 (2)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-05-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rlowdb adds 9 packages (7 with compiled code, 4.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: yyjsonr 1.3 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

cli purrr R6 rlang (>= 1.1.3)yyjsonr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Mohamed El Fodil Ihaddaden

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

lowdb developers

Contributor, Copyright holder

developers of the lowdb package

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
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2025-04-16 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
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2025-03-17
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-03-17
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rlowdb")

Format

Ihaddaden, M. E. F., & lowdb developers. (2025). rlowdb: Lightweight JSON-Based Database (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rlowdb

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 rlowdb version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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