R Observatory: Metrics for rmake version 1.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rmake

1.2.3Package record

Makefile Generator for R Analytical Projects

0packages depend

5.2Kdownloads / year

81.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michal BurdaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Creates and maintains a build process for complex analytic tasks in R. Package allows to easily generate Makefile for the (GNU) 'make' tool, which drives the build process by (in parallel) executing build commands in order to update results accordingly to given dependencies on changed data or updated source files.

Changes in 1.2.3

released: 2026-09-25
added pythonRule()
fixed markdownRule() to properly generate the resulting PDF if the output is to a different directory than the source Rmd file

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rmake", 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("beerda/rmake")

Development version from beerda/rmake. 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-rmake

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-rmake

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-rmake

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: 4.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 26 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%16 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 68%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,426 · ~14/day · ~430/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45330 days

1.1K90 days

5.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on96 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

beerda/rmake ↗Account: beerda

4Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

227Commits

2Commit identities

rmakefilermake

227 commits · Last activity 2026-09-26 · 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

2023-12-25 · 12026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/beerda/rmake on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-26 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-26

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-11-12
Seen in the repository: .github/copilot-instructions.md
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 5 by its own account · at least 6 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-09-25
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

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

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rmake adds 29 packages (15 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, visNetwork 4.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

toolsassertthat rmarkdown visNetwork knitr

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 (1)

Michal Burda

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.2.3Latest
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2026-09-25 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
pythonRule
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.2
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2026-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
hasGnuMake
1.2.1
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2025-11-12 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2025-08-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
visualize

added 7 exports
copyRule, depRule, knitrRule, sanitizePath, sanitizeSpaces, subdirRule, visualizeRules
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1.0
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2018-08-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
%>>%, expandTemplate, make, prerequisites, replaceVariables, targets, tasks, terminals, visualize
1.0.1
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2018-08-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
getParam
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.0
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2018-03-22

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R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-03-22
Total releases: 7 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3.0)
Download size: 74 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rmake")

Format

Burda, M. (2026). rmake: Makefile Generator for R Analytical Projects (Version 1.2.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rmake

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 rmake version 1.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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