R Observatory: Metrics for shinyhelper version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shinyhelper

0.3.2Package record

Easily Add Markdown Help Files to 'shiny' App Elements

10packages dependsuggested by 4

31.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chris Mason-ThomCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Creates a lightweight way to add markdown helpfiles to 'shiny' apps, using modal dialog boxes, with no need to observe each help button separately.

Changes in 0.3.2

Add parameters for fade, easyClose and buttonLabel

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("shinyhelper", 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("cwthom/shinyhelper")

Development version from cwthom/shinyhelper. 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-shinyhelper

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-shinyhelper

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-shinyhelper

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

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘markdown’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 47 s · r-devel-windows-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 0.3.2

READMEYes · 565 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 75%3 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

31.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,946 · ~87/day · ~2.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3K30 days

4.7K90 days

31.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1K r2u4 autocran2K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

cwthom/shinyhelper ↗Account: cwthom

116Stars

14Forks

12Open issues

2Open PRs

5Releases

108Commits

3Commit identities

shiny

108 commits · Last activity 2022-08-12 · Default branch at 0.3.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.3.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 13
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-11 · 1162026-07-07 · 116

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cwthom/shinyhelper on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

renvdata-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing shinyhelper adds 33 packages (20 with compiled code, 26 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

shiny markdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

0indirect

Imports 10

Suggested by 4

Show all 14 packagesHide all 14 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

DCEtool shinyExprPortal pannotator visxhclust istat FastRet tsviz kesernetwork icertool shinyrecap

Suggests, most downloaded first

geocmeans HaDeX Slick eVCGsampler

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Chris Mason-Thom

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3.1

Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2018)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Chris Thom

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.3.0

Releases (5)

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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.2Latest
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2019-11-09 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.1
record
2018-10-28 · diff ↗
0.3.0
record
2018-06-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
shinyhelperDemo, use_shinyhelper

added 1 export
shinyhelper_demo
0.2.0
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2018-06-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
shinyhelperDemo
0.1.1
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2018-05-30
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-30
Total releases: 5 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 76 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("shinyhelper")

Format

Mason-Thom, C. (2019). shinyhelper: Easily Add Markdown Help Files to 'shiny' App Elements (Version 0.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.shinyhelper

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 shinyhelper version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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