R Observatory: Metrics for settings version 0.2.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

settings

0.2.7Package record

Software Option Settings Manager for R

11packages depend

38.3Kdownloads / year

86.3%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark van der LooCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides option settings management that goes beyond R's default 'options' function. With this package, users can define their own option settings manager holding option names, default values and (if so desired) ranges or sets of allowed option values that will be automatically checked. Settings can then be retrieved, altered and reset to defaults with ease. For R programmers and package developers it offers cloning and merging functionality which allows for conveniently defining global and local options, possibly in a multilevel options hierarchy. See the package vignette for some examples concerning functions, S4 classes, and reference classes. There are convenience functions to reset par() and options() to their 'factory defaults'.

Changes in 0.2.7

options_manager gained .list argument
extended support for NULL option values
Added 'rmarkdown' to Suggests, by CRAN request
Switched to 'tinytest' test framework

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("settings", 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("markvanderloo/settings")

Development version from markvanderloo/settings. 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-settings

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-settings

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-settings

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Mark van der Loo <mark.vanderloo@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Mark",
                    family = "van der Loo",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "mark.vanderloo@gmail.com")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.7

READMENoVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.7Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 22%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

38.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,237 · ~105/day · ~3.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.8K30 days

7.8K90 days

38.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on454 r2u153 autocran2.5K conda_forge141 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

markvanderloo/settings ↗Account: markvanderloo

9Stars

4Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

61Commits

2Commit identities

61 commits · Last activity 2024-06-14 · 0% stars, 30d

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

2025-04-08 · 82026-07-07 · 9

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/markvanderloo/settings on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

grDevicesgraphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

7indirect

Imports 11

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

validate fcaR atable PPRL formatdown dwctaxon RFishBC dcmodify RJalaliDate weaana taskqueue

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Mark van der Loo

Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2014)

Releases (5)

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2015-10-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
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2015-06-01 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2015-04-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
reset_options, reset_par

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-10-28
Total releases: 5 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 29 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for settings version 0.2.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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