R Observatory: Metrics for slackr version 3.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

slackr

3.3.1Package record

Send Messages, Images, R Objects and Files to 'Slack' Channels/Users

0packages dependsuggested by 2

111Kdownloads / year

56.7%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matt KayeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

'Slack' https://slack.com/ provides a service for teams to collaborate by sharing messages, images, links, files and more. Functions are provided that make it possible to interact with the 'Slack' platform 'API'. When you need to share information or data from R, rather than resort to copy/ paste in e-mails or other services like 'Skype' https://www.skype.com/en/, you can use this package to send well-formatted output from multiple R objects and expressions to all teammates at the same time with little effort. You can also send images from the current graphics device, R objects, and upload files.

Changes in 3.3.1

Fixes a bug in slackr_history where the function fails to infer posted_from_time if not provided
Adds default message_count = 100 to slackr_history
Improves test coverage

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("slackr", 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("mrkaye97/slackr")

Development version from mrkaye97/slackr. 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-slackr

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-slackr

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-slackr

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: ‘Matt Kaye <mrkaye97@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Bob",
                      family = "Rudis",
                      role = c("aut", "cre")),
               person(given = "Jay",
                      family = "Jacobs",
                      role = "ctb"),
               person(given = "David",
                      family = "Severski",
                      role = "ctb"),
               person(given = "Quinn",
                      family = "Weber",
                      role = "ctb"),
               person(given = "Konrad",
                      family = "Karczewski",
                      role = "ctb"),
               person(given = "Shinya",
                      family = "Uryu",
                      role = "ctb"),
               person(given = "Gregory",
                      family = "Jefferis",
                      role = "ctb"),
               person(given = "Ed",
                      family = "Niles",
                      role = "ctb"),
               person(given = "Rick",
                      family = "Saporta",
                      role = "ctb"),
               person(given = "Jonathan",
                      family = "Sidi",
                      role = c("aut", "ctb")),
               person(given = "Matt",
                      family = "Kaye",
                      role = c("aut", "ctb", "cre"),
                      email = "mrkaye97@gmail.com"),
               person(given = "Xinye",
                      family = "Li",
                      role = "ctb"),
               person(given = "Andrie",
                      family = "de Vries",
                      role = c("aut", "ctb")))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-12
WARNING11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.3.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.3.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 25 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 9%1 run in a plain check (under a condition) · 10 never run
Exported functions with examples: 46%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 87%
Help pages citing references: 20%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

111K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,599 · ~304/day · ~9.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.6K30 days

14.5K90 days

111K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on93 r2u3 autocran134 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mrkaye97/slackr ↗Account: mrkaye97

309Stars

83Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

631Commits

25Commit identities

rslackrstats

631 commits · Last activity 2024-10-16 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.4.0, ahead of CRAN 3.3.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 70
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-09-10 · 3062026-09-13 · 309

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mrkaye97/slackr on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-10-16 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing slackr adds 25 packages (17 with compiled code, 8.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (11)

cachem dplyrgrDeviceshttr jsonlite magrittr memoise rlang tibbleutilswithr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

covr ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown svglite testthat (>= 3.0.0)texPreview

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

logger chat.api

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (13)

Bob Rudis

Author, Maintainer

Jonathan Sidi

Author, Contributor · added in 2.0.1

Matt Kaye

Author, Contributor · added in 2.0.1

Andrie de Vries

Author, Contributor · added in 2.2.0

Jay Jacobs

Contributor

David Severski

Contributor · added in 1.4.1

Quinn Weber

Contributor · added in 1.4.1

Konrad Karczewski

Contributor · added in 1.4.1

Shinya Uryu

Contributor · added in 1.4.1

Gregory Jefferis

Contributor · added in 1.4.1

Ed Niles

Contributor · added in 1.4.1

Rick Saporta

Contributor · added in 1.4.1

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Xinye Li

Contributor · added in 2.0.1

Maintainer since 2.0.1 (2021), previously Bob Rudis (1.2 to 1.4.2)

Releases (13)

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
3.3.1Latest
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2023-02-26 · current release · diff ↗
3.3.0
record
2023-02-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
3.2.0
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2021-09-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
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3.0.1
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2021-08-20 · diff ↗
3.0.0
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2021-08-07 · diff ↗
2.4.1
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2021-07-06 · diff ↗
2.4.0
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2021-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 15 exports
dev.slackr, dev_slackr, save.slackr, save_slackr, slackrBot, slackrChTrans, slackrChannels, slackrChtrans, slackrIms, slackrMsg, slackrSetup, slackrUpload, slackrUsers, textSlackr, text_slackr
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.3.0
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2021-05-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
tex_slackr

added 5 exports
create_config_file, slackr_csv, slackr_save, slackr_teardown, slackr_tex
2.2.0
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2021-03-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
auth_test, call_slack_api, convert_response_to_tibble, slackr_delete, slackr_dev, slackr_history, with_pagination
2.0.1
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2021-01-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
slackrGroups, slackr_groups

added 2 exports
register_onexit, tex_slackr

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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
1.4.2
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2016-07-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.4.1
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2016-04-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 16 exports
dev_slackr, save_slackr, slackrChtrans, slackrIms, slackrMsg, slackr_bot, slackr_channels, slackr_chtrans, slackr_groups, slackr_ims, slackr_msg, slackr_setup, slackr_upload, slackr_users, textSlackr, text_slackr
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
1.2
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2014-09-08
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-08
Total releases: 13 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 50 KB

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citation("slackr")

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for slackr version 3.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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