R Observatory: Metrics for rversions version 3.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rversions

3.0.0

Query 'R' Versions, Including 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel'

4packages depend

2Mdownloads / year

97.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiFirst published 2015-04-2212 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Query the main 'R' 'SVN' repository to find the versions 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel' refer to, and also all previous 'R' versions and their release dates.

Install

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

install.packages("rversions", 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("r-hub/rversions")

Development version from r-hub/rversions. 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-rversions

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-rversions

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-rversions

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 54 s · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.20

97.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 939 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 91%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #271 · ~5.5K/day · ~167.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

132.6K30 days

467.6K90 days

2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on90.7K r2u112 autocran209.3K conda_forge1.2K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-hub/rversions

43Stars

3Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

165Commits

11Contributors

rrstatsr-package

165 commits · Last activity 2025-10-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-07 · 402026-07-07 · 43

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-hub/rversions on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Show all practices

Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

curl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

pillar testthat webfakes withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

79indirect

devtools packageRank plotly repo.data

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.3

Authors (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.3

Contributors (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 1.0.1

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 3.0.0

Funders (2)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 3.0.0

R Consortium

Funder · added in 1.1.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Gabor Csardi

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.0.2

Package Timeline

12 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.0.0Latest
2025-10-09 · current release · diff ↗
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
2.1.2
2022-08-31 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.1.1
2021-05-31 · diff ↗
2.1.0
2021-05-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.0.2
2020-05-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.0.1
2019-12-03 · diff ↗
2.0.0
2019-05-09 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1.0
2019-04-11 · diff ↗

Show 8 earlier events

R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0.3
2016-08-02 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0.2
2015-07-13 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2015-06-06 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2015-04-22
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-04-22
Total releases: 12 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 85 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rversions")

Format

Csárdi, G., Posit Software, PBC, R Consortium, & Ooms, J. (2025). rversions: Query 'R' Versions, Including 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel' (Version 3.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rversions

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rversions version 3.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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