R Observatory: Metrics for rsyslog version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rsyslog

1.0.3Package record

Interface to the 'syslog' System Logger

0packages dependsuggested by 4

57.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

10/10flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Aaron JacobsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Functions to write messages to the 'syslog' system logger API, available on all 'POSIX'-compatible operating systems. Features include tagging messages with a priority level and application type, as well as masking (hiding) messages below a given priority level.

Changes in 1.0.3

Fixes compiler warnings on CRAN surfaced by -Wstrict-prototypes.
Fixes URL warnings on CRAN due to redirects.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rsyslog", 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("atheriel/rsyslog")

Development version from atheriel/rsyslog. 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-rsyslog

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-rsyslog

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-rsyslog

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

10OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 30 s · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK10 OK2026-08-04
NOTE9 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK11 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.3

READMEYes · 216 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

57.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,767 · ~158/day · ~4.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.8K30 days

5.4K90 days

57.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on384 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

atheriel/rsyslog ↗Account: atheriel

26Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

33Commits

1Commit identities

rsyslogloggingposix

33 commits · Last activity 2023-05-06

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 43
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 12026-08-31 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/atheriel/rsyslog on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rsyslog adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 4

Suggests, most downloaded first

futile.logger logger log4r lgrExtra

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Aaron Jacobs

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Crescendo Technology Ltd.

Copyright holder

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-05-08
1.0.3Latest
record
2023-05-08 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-05-05
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.2
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2021-06-04 · 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
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.1
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2018-07-03 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2018-07-02
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-02
Total releases: 4 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 5.3 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rsyslog")

Format

Jacobs, A., & Crescendo Technology Ltd. (2023). rsyslog: Interface to the 'syslog' System Logger (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rsyslog

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 rsyslog version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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