R Observatory: Metrics for seekr version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

seekr

0.2.0Package record

Search, Inspect, and Replace Text Across Files

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sacha MartingayCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An inspectable and composable workflow for search-and-replace in text files. Files can be listed, filtered, and searched separately, with inspectable exclusions showing what was excluded and why. Matches are represented as structured vectors that can be printed with context, summarized, and filtered. Replacements can be defined at search time or set and updated after the search. Only matches present in the vector are modified when files are written. Backup and restore helpers are provided for file workflows. Text that has already been read can also be searched and updated directly, giving users control over input, output, and encoding when needed.

Changes in 0.2.0

This is a complete redesign of seekr.

seekr is now a much more ambitious package built around a different model of

search-and-replace. Instead of providing a small set of helpers for finding text

in files, it now introduces a full workflow for listing files, filtering files,

finding matches, inspecting and refining results, staging replacements, modifying

selected files, creating backups, and restoring them.

This release introduces the seekr_match vector, implemented as a vctrs

record-style (rcrd) vector. Each element represents one independent match in

one file, while fields store the file path, match location, matched text, planned

replacement, surrounding context, and related metadata.

This release is intentionally not backward compatible with seekr 0.1.3. The

scope of the package has expanded substantially, and keeping the previous API

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would have required maintaining two separate paradigms side by side. The previous

API has therefore been removed, and existing code using earlier versions of

seekr will need to be rewritten with the new workflow-oriented API.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("seekr", 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("smartiing/seekr")

Development version from smartiing/seekr. 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-seekr

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-seekr

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-seekr

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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 1,160 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 32 (9 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 96%22 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 90%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,318 · ~7/day · ~221/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43130 days

1K90 days

2.7K1 year

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Also on80 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

smartiing/seekr ↗Account: smartiing

2Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

65Commits

2Commit identities

65 commits · Last activity 2026-07-31 · Default branch at 0.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 88%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-05 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/smartiing/seekr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-31 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-31

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing seekr adds 34 packages (22 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, fs 1.4 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (17)

checkmate cli fs gluemethodsmime pillar processx purrr rappdirs readr rlang stringi stringr tibbleutilsvctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat withr diffobj dplyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Sacha Martingay

Releases (4)

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0.2.0Latest
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2026-07-10 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
seek_in

added 33 exports
field<-, as_match, as_seekr_path, coll, delete_backups, empty_stage, exclude_functions, exclusions, field, fields, filter_files, filter_match, fixed, is_dependency_dir, is_git_dir, is_minified_file, is_not_text_mime, last_backup, list_backups, match_files, match_text, new_seekr_match, open_backup_dir, regex, replace_files, replace_text, restore_files, restore_files_interactive, seekr, seekr_option and 3 more
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.4
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2026-02-08 · diff ↗
0.1.3
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2025-05-11 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2025-05-05
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-05-05
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 1.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("seekr")

Format

Martingay, S. (2026). seekr: Search, Inspect, and Replace Text Across Files (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.seekr

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 seekr version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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