skeletor

1.0.4

An R Package Skeleton Generator

0packages depend

7.7Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Neal RichardsonFirst published 2016-12-303 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A tool for bootstrapping new packages with useful defaults, including a test suite outline that passes checks and helpers for running tests, checking test coverage, building vignettes, and more. Package skeletons it creates are set up for pushing your package to 'GitHub' and using other hosted services for building and test automation.

Install

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

install.packages("skeletor", 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("nealrichardson/skeletor")

Development version from nealrichardson/skeletor. 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-skeletor

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-skeletor

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-skeletor

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 48 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.44

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 419 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

7.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,813 · ~21/day · ~642/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36330 days

1.7K90 days

7.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nealrichardson/skeletor

21Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

50Commits

2Contributors

skeleton-generatortestingcodecovtravis-ci

50 commits · Last activity 2023-04-07

Stars over time

2024-05-08 · 212026-07-07 · 21

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nealrichardson/skeletor on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CIAppVeyor

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 388 (87%)Rd 59 (13%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 9.0 median / 10 max
Test cases: 33 / 1.44 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

100%

Expression

100.0%

Tests / Examples

100.0% / – ex

Functions

2 2 exported

Complexity

9 avg / 10 max

Call network

2 nodes / 0 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

2 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
configure exp	10	100%
skeletor exp	8	100%

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Neal Richardson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Neal Richardson

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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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
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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
1.0.4Latest
2017-04-09 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.2
2017-01-01 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2016-12-30
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-30
Total releases: 3 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 11 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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