R Observatory: Metrics for simpleSetup version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

simpleSetup

0.1.0Package record

Set Up R Source Code Files for Use on Multiple Machines

0packages depend

1.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher GandrudCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

When working across multiple machines and, similarly for reproducible research, it can be time consuming to ensure that you have all of the needed packages installed and loaded and that the correct working directory is set. 'simpleSetup' provides simple functions for making these tasks more straightforward.

Install

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

install.packages("simpleSetup", 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("christophergandrud/simpleSetup")

Development version from christophergandrud/simpleSetup. 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-simplesetup

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-simpleSetup

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-simpleSetup

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: 46 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25

Show 1 earlier changeHide 1 earlier change

NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 126 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 50%1 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

1.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,117 · ~4/day · ~136/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

15930 days

42190 days

1.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

christophergandrud/simplesetup ↗Account: christophergandrud

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

4Commits

1Commit identities

4 commits · Last activity 2017-01-28 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.1, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2017-01-25 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/christophergandrud/simplesetup on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (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 (1)

Christopher Gandrud

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Releases (1)

R
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
R
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
0.1.0Latest
record
2017-01-24 · current release
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-24
Total releases: 1 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 2.5 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("simpleSetup")

Format

Gandrud, C. (2017). simpleSetup: Set Up R Source Code Files for Use on Multiple Machines (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.simpleSetup

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 simpleSetup version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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