R Observatory: Metrics for sasctl version 0.9.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sasctl

0.9.0Package record

Easily Communicate Between the "SAS Viya" Platform and R

0packages depend

467downloads / year

35.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Eduardo HellasCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: SAS

The 'sasctl' (sas control) package enables easy communication between the "SAS Viya" platform APIs https://developer.sas.com and the R runtime. It offers convenient wrappers to some most used endpoints.

Changes in 0.9.0

To comply with CRAN policies some breaking changes were required:

Breaking:

Functions that write files no longer default to the current working directory. The path argument now defaults to NULL and must be supplied explicitly when file output is requested. Affected functions are: write_in_out_json, write_ModelProperties_json, write_fileMetadata_json, calculateFitStat, calculateROCStat, calculateLiftStat, diagnosticsJson, and create_scoreSample. This may cause errors if a path is not explicitly assigned. These functions now also return explicitly instead of invisibly.
Codegen add_target_name default changed to FALSE (comment: it was confusing and unecessary most of the time)

Changes:

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fix: json functions no longer return values invisibly.
fix: Functions that writes to path requires it defined explictly now
fix: codegen has been updated with some fixes and quality of life. (The user should still verify the generated code and files)
fix: The R scoring code sample and generated codes no loger uses .GlobalEnv, it relies on R context inheritance to load models. (comment: it was required to add sasctl to CRAN, it can still be used if the user wants.)
fix: Updated docs and readme to use file.path instead of paste0(...) when referencing system files.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sasctl", 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("sassoftware/r-sasctl")

Development version from sassoftware/r-sasctl. 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-sasctl

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-sasctl

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-sasctl

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK7 OK2026-09-19

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.0

READMEYes · 353 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 49
Examples that run: 16%8 run in a plain check · 41 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

xgb-tidymodel HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

467

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,510 · ~1/day · ~39/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

46730 days

46790 days

4671 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

sassoftware/r-sasctl ↗Organization: sassoftware

8Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

104Commits

4Commit identities

sas-ext

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 104 commits · Last activity 2026-09-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 448
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/sassoftware/r-sasctl on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (2)

Contributing guideSupport guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-18

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sasctl adds 26 packages (20 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, gplots 4.6 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

jsonlite httr uuid ROCRutilsreshape2methodsbase64enc glue

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

future furrr testthat httptest knitr rmarkdown tidymodels xgboost rstudioapi

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)

Eduardo Hellas

Author, Maintainer since 0.9.0 (2026)

SAS

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (1)

0.9.0Latest
record
2026-09-18 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-18
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Download size: 139 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sasctl")

Format

Hellas, E., & SAS. (2026). sasctl: Easily Communicate Between the "SAS Viya" Platform and R (Version 0.9.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sasctl

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sasctl version 0.9.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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