R Observatory: Metrics for sticky version 0.5.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sticky

0.5.6.1

Persist Attributes Across Data Operations

3packages depend

12.9Kdownloads / year

71.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher BrownFirst published 2016-09-265 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

In base R, object attributes are lost when objects are modified by common data operations such as subset, filter, slice, append, extract etc. This packages allows objects to be marked as 'sticky' and have attributes persisted during these operations or when inserted into or extracted from list-like or table-like objects.

Install

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

install.packages("sticky", 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("decisionpatterns/sticky")

Development version from decisionpatterns/sticky. 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-sticky

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-sticky

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-sticky

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.11

71.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 350 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

12.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,026 · ~35/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52730 days

2.1K90 days

12.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Repository

GitHub ↗ decisionpatterns/sticky

22Stars

2Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

48Commits

1Contributors

48 commits · Last activity 2020-03-17

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/decisionpatterns/sticky on 2026-08-23.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

magrittr testthat data.table (>= 1.9.6)tibble knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

asremlPlus ggperiodic limonaid

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Christopher Brown

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Christopher Brown

Author, Maintainer

Copyright holders (1)

Decision Patterns

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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Package metadata

First published: 2016-09-26
Total releases: 5 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 16 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sticky")

Format

Brown, C., & Decision Patterns. (2020). sticky: Persist Attributes Across Data Operations (Version 0.5.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sticky

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sticky version 0.5.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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