R Observatory: Metrics for shinyscholar version 0.4.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shinyscholar

0.4.5Package record

A Template for Creating Reproducible 'shiny' Applications

0packages depend

6.7Kdownloads / year

67.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Simon E. H. SmartCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Create a skeleton 'shiny' application with create_template() that is reproducible, can be saved and meets academic standards for attribution. Forked from 'wallace'. Code is split into modules that are loaded and linked together automatically and each call one function. Guidance pages explain modules to users and flexible logging informs them of any errors. Options enable asynchronous operations, viewing of source code, interactive maps and data tables. Use to create complex analytical applications, following best practices in open science and software development. Includes functions for automating repetitive development tasks and an example application at run_shinyscholar() that requires install.packages("shinyscholar", dependencies = TRUE). A guide to developing applications can be found on the package website.

Changes in 0.4.5

Migrate from {devtools} to {pak} for installation
Set R_USER_CACHE_DIR in tests
Import app dependencies in global.R instead of via Depends
Fixed bug in global.R due to missing function
create_module() updates the module .yml and global.R so that the app runs
reset_data(), show_loading_modal(), close_loading_modal(), show_map(), show_results() and show_table() have been moved from R/helper_functions to inst/shiny/ui_helpers.R and are no longer exported

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("shinyscholar", 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("simon-smart88/shinyscholar")

Development version from simon-smart88/shinyscholar. 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-shinyscholar

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-shinyscholar

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-shinyscholar

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: 4.0 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-04

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-03
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-05
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-01
OK14 OK2026-04-12
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.5

READMEYes · 3,564 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.4.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 20 (7 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 78%7 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,135 · ~18/day · ~556/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

46530 days

1.2K90 days

6.7K1 year

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Also on101 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

simon-smart88/shinyscholar ↗Account: simon-smart88

32Stars

5Forks

12Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

503Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 503 commits · Last activity 2026-04-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 22
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-22 · 272026-07-07 · 32

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/simon-smart88/shinyscholar on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dockerfile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

32 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing shinyscholar adds 95 packages (46 with compiled code, 57 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, pak 3.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

curl devtools glue knitr paktoolszip

LinkingTo (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (20)

Simon E. H. Smart

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.2 (2025), Copyright holder

Tim Lucas

Author

Matthew E. Aiello-Lammens

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Valentina Grisales-Betancur

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Bethany A. Johnson

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Gonzalo E. Pinilla-Buitrago

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Sara Varela

Contributor

Bruno Vilela

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Releases (10)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.5Latest
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2026-04-03 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
close_loading_modal, reset_data, show_loading_modal, show_map, show_results, show_table
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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added 1 export
reset_data
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-01-15
Total releases: 10 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 197 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("shinyscholar")

Format

Smart, S. E. H., Aiello-Lammens, M. E., Anderson, R. P., Attali, D., Blair, M. E., Broennimann, O., Galante, P. J., Grisales-Betancur, V., Johnson, B. A., Kass, J. M., Lucas, T., Maitner, B. S., Meenan, S. I., Merow, C., Muscarella, R., Owens, H. L., Paz, A., Pinilla-Buitrago, G. E., Varela, S., & Vilela, B. (2026). shinyscholar: A Template for Creating Reproducible 'shiny' Applications (Version 0.4.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.shinyscholar

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for shinyscholar version 0.4.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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