R Observatory: Metrics for robservable version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

robservable

0.2.2Package record

Import an Observable Notebook as HTML Widget

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Julien BarnierCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Allows loading and displaying an Observable notebook (online JavaScript notebooks powered by https://observablehq.com) as an HTML Widget in an R session, 'shiny' application or 'rmarkdown' document.

Changes in 0.2.2

Fix compatibility with RStudio outdated web rendering engine
Fix modified notebooks in vignettes
Update Observable runtime to 4.22.6

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("robservable", 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("juba/robservable")

Development version from juba/robservable. 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-robservable

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-robservable

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-robservable

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: 1.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

READMEYes · 355 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,333 · ~10/day · ~305/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37530 days

99290 days

3.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on70 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

juba/robservable ↗Account: juba

166Stars

11Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

329Commits

3Commit identities

rrstatsobservablehtmlwidgets

329 commits · Last activity 2026-10-16 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.2 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-17 · 1662026-09-16 · 166

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/juba/robservable 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 2026-10-16 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-16

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing robservable adds 26 packages (14 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

htmlwidgets jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

gapminder palmerpenguins knitr rmarkdown readr dplyr tidyr lubridate stringr

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)

Julien Barnier

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2020)

Kenton Russell

Author

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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0.2.2Latest
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2022-06-28 · current release · diff ↗
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2021-10-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-30
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 898 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("robservable")

Format

Barnier, J., & Russell, K. (2022). robservable: Import an Observable Notebook as HTML Widget (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.robservable

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 robservable version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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