R Observatory: Metrics for sortable version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sortable

0.6.0Package record

Drag-and-Drop in 'shiny' Apps with 'SortableJS'

15packages dependsuggested by 11

75.9Kdownloads / year

93.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrie de VriesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit

Enables drag-and-drop behaviour in Shiny apps, by exposing the functionality of the 'SortableJS' https://sortablejs.github.io/Sortable/ JavaScript library as an 'htmlwidget'. You can use this in Shiny apps and widgets, 'learnr' tutorials as well as R Markdown. In addition, provides a custom 'learnr' question type - 'question_rank()' - that allows ranking questions with drag-and-drop.

Changes in 0.6.0

Bug fixes

Fix the problem with using sortable with shiny modules. To prevent user code from breaking, this requires opting in by using 'enable_modules()`. See the vignette for more information.

Enhancements

New function update_bucket_list() to update the items in a bucket list
New functionality to update labels in update_rank_list()

Updates

Update Sortable.js to version 1.15.6

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sortable", 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("rstudio/sortable")

Development version from rstudio/sortable. 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-sortable

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-sortable

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-sortable

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: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 7 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check (7 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 64%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 57%
Help pages citing references: 7%

Vignettes (7)

How these are measured

Downloads

75.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,666 · ~208/day · ~6.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.2K30 days

13.2K90 days

75.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/sortable ↗Organization: rstudio

137Stars

32Forks

17Open issues

3Open PRs

0Releases

487Commits

9Commit identities

rr-packagehtmlwidget

487 commits · Last activity 2026-02-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 79%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 51
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 1362026-09-12 · 137

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/sortable on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-18

pkgdown site last built 2026-02-18

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sortable adds 46 packages (23 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

assertthat cli htmltools htmlwidgets jsonlite learnr (>= 0.10.0)rlang shinyutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

base64enc covr knitr magrittr rmarkdown shinytest2 spelling testthat webshot withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

15direct

5indirect

Imports 15

Suggested by 11

Show all 26 packagesHide all 26 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

teal.reporter AbSolution Certara.R Certara.ModelResults appRiori Certara.DarwinReporter shinyrecipes tfrmtbuilder Certara.VPCResults PKbioanalysis mapsf.gui WMFM StatTeacherAssistant smvgraph dragonfarm

Suggests, most downloaded first

learnr visOmopResults OmopSketch PhenotypeR aifeducation shiny.fluent DRomics tablet Open.Visualization.Academy shinyquiz psychds

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Andrie de Vries

Maintainer since 0.4.2 (2019), Author

Kenton Russell

Author, ccp

Original author

Barret Schloerke

Author

Posit

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.6.0

Lebedev Konstantin

Copyright holder

'SortableJS', https://sortablejs.github.io/Sortable/

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.4.3 to 0.5.0

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.0Latest
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2025-12-14 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
enable_modules, is_modules_enabled, update_rank_list
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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
0.5.0
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2023-03-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
update_bucket_list
0.4.6
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2022-08-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.4.5
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2021-12-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.4
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2020-09-17 · diff ↗
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2020-08-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.2
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2019-12-01
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-12-01
Total releases: 7 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.9 MB

Cite

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citation("sortable")

Format

de Vries, A., Posit, Konstantin, L., Russell, K., & Schloerke, B. (2025). sortable: Drag-and-Drop in 'shiny' Apps with 'SortableJS' (Version 0.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sortable

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sortable version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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