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1.5.1Package record

Relational Query Generator for Data Manipulation at Scale

3packages dependsuggested by 1
37.9Kdownloads / year
46.4%test coverage
13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

A piped query generator based on Edgar F. Codd's relational algebra, and on production experience using 'SQL' and 'dplyr' at big data scale. The design represents an attempt to make 'SQL' more teachable by denoting composition by a sequential pipeline notation instead of nested queries or functions. The implementation delivers reliable high performance data processing on large data systems such as 'Spark', databases, and 'data.table'. Package features include: data processing trees or pipelines as observable objects (able to report both columns produced and columns used), optimized 'SQL' generation as an explicit user visible table modeling step, plus explicit query reasoning and checking.

Changes in 1.5.1
  • Fix brace issue in docs.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64
Status changes
  • OK13 OK2026-09-25
  • NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10
Advisories

none known

Documentation

In release 1.5.1
READMEYes · 2,156 wordsVignettesYes · 8 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown
Help pages
109 (13 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%70 run in a plain check (62 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples
68%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
95%
Help pages citing references
0%

Downloads

37.9K
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #2,246 · ~104/day · ~3.2K/mo
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2.6K30 days
7.6K90 days
37.9K1 year
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Repository

109Stars
16Forks
1Open issues
0Open PRs
33Releases
1,237Commits
4Commit identities
1,237 commits · Last activity 2026-09-08
Responsiveness
How these are sampled
PRs merged (all time)
100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
0

Stars over time

2025-01-02 · 1092026-07-07 · 109
PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/winvector/rquery on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (3)
README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-01-27

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
9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rquery adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 552 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: wrapr 552 KB.

Depends (2)
R >= 3.4.0wrapr
Imports (3)
utilsstatsmethods
LinkingTo (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none
Reverse dependencies
3direct
0indirect
Depends 1 · Imports 2
Suggested by 1
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Suggests, most downloaded first

People & History

People (2)
Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2018)
Copyright holder
Releases (37)

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  • 1.5.1Latest
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    2026-09-08 · current release · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
  • R
    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
  • 1.4.99
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    2023-08-20 · diff ↗
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    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
  • 1.4.9
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    2022-02-28 · diff ↗
  • 1.4.8
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    2022-01-22 · diff ↗
  • 1.4.7
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    2021-06-10 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
  • 1.4.6
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    2020-10-17 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 1 export
    run_rquery_tests
  • 1.4.5
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    2020-08-12 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    rq_head
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
  • 1.4.4
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    2020-02-18 · diff ↗
  • 1.4.3
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    2020-02-01 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 13 exports
    %.>%, %:=%, apply_left, apply_right, build_frame, draw_frame, let, map_to_char, mk_tmp_name_source, qae, qc, qchar_frame, qe
    added 1 export
    make_assignments
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  • 1.4.2
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    2020-01-19 · diff ↗
  • 1.4.1
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    2020-01-09 · diff ↗
  • 1.4.0
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    2019-12-01 · diff ↗
  • 1.3.9
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    2019-10-27 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 4 exports
    add_relop, get_relop_list_stages, make_relop_list, materialize_relop_list_stages
    added 3 exports
    arrow, ex, wrap
  • 1.3.8
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    2019-09-15 · diff ↗ ·
    added 3 exports
    convert_yaml_to_pipeline, order_rows, to_transport_representation
  • 1.3.7
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    2019-07-29 · diff ↗
  • 1.3.6
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    2019-07-04 · diff ↗
  • 1.3.5
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    2019-06-26 · diff ↗
  • 1.3.4
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    2019-06-14 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    rq_function_mappings
  • 1.3.3
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    2019-06-02 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
  • 1.3.2
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    2019-03-10 · diff ↗
  • 1.3.1
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    2019-02-14 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    run_rquery_tests
  • 1.3.0
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    2019-01-29 · diff ↗ ·
    added 14 exports
    add_relop, get_relop_list_stages, make_relop_list, materialize_relop_list_stages, pre_sql_fn, pre_sql_identifier, pre_sql_string, pre_sql_sub_expr, pre_sql_to_query, pre_sql_token, row_counts, rquery_default_methods, setDBOpt, str_pre_sql_sub_expr
  • 1.2.1
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    2018-12-16 · diff ↗ ·
    added 7 exports
    extend, order_expr, order_expr_nse, order_expr_se, project, select_rows, theta_join
  • 1.2.0
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    2018-11-07 · diff ↗
  • 1.1.1
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    2018-10-26 · diff ↗
  • 1.1.0
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    2018-09-20 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    lookup_by_column
  • 1.0.0
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    2018-09-10 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    rquery_default_db_info
  • 0.6.2
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    2018-08-15 · diff ↗ ·
    added 2 exports
    aggregate_nse, aggregate_se
  • 0.6.1
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    2018-08-01 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 9 exports
    %>>%, dbi_colnames, dbi_coltypes, dbi_connection_advice, dbi_connection_tests, dbi_copy_to, dbi_nrow, dbi_remove_table, dbi_table_exists
    added 4 exports
    affine_transform, quote_table_name, rlook, rstr
  • 0.5.0
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    2018-06-18 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 4 exports
    dbi_connection_name, dbi_connection_preferences, dbi_execute, materialize_sql_statement
    added 38 exports
    %.>%, %:=%, %>>%, apply_left, apply_right, build_frame, complete_design, db_td, dbi_coltypes, dbi_connection_advice, draw_frame, example_employee_date, expand_grid, let, local_td, map_to_char, materialize_node, materialize_sql, mk_td, mk_tmp_name_source, qae, qc, qchar_frame, qe, quote_identifier, quote_literal, quote_string, rq_colnames, rq_coltypes, rq_connection_advice and 8 more
  • 0.4.3
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    2018-05-08 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 1 export
    replace_null_cols
    added 21 exports
    actualize_join_plan, assign_slice, build_join_plan, dbi_execute, describe_tables, drop_columns, format_node, graph_join_plan, if_else_op, inspect_join_plan, key_inspector_all_cols, key_inspector_postgresql, key_inspector_sqlite, map_column_values, normalize_cols, null_replace, op_diagram, pick_top_k, set_indicator, topo_sort_tables, unionall
  • R
    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
  • 0.4.2
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    2018-04-05 · diff ↗ ·
    added 7 exports
    dbi_connection_name, dbi_connection_preferences, dbi_connection_tests, dbi_table_exists, getDBOption, materialize_sql_statement, setDBOption
  • 0.4.1
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    2018-03-18 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 1 export
    materialize_node
    added 6 exports
    dbi_colnames, dbi_nrow, dbi_remove_table, quantile_cols, quantile_node, sql_expr_set
  • 0.4.0
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    2018-03-10 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 2 exports
    execute_data_frame, to_pre_sql
    added 9 exports
    commencify, count_null_cols, execute, mark_null_cols, materialize_node, non_sql_node, replace_null_cols, rsummary, rsummary_node
  • 0.3.1
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    2018-02-10 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    materialize
  • 0.3.0
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    2018-01-31 · diff ↗
  • 0.2.0
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    2018-01-24
  • R
    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published
2018-01-24
Total releases
37 / 8 yrs
License
GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R
≥ 3.4.0
Download size
491 KB

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Mount, J., & Win-Vector LLC, . (2026). rquery: Relational Query Generator for Data Manipulation at Scale (Version 1.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rquery

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rquery version 1.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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