R Observatory: Metrics for sticky version 0.5.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sticky

0.5.6.1Package record

Persist Attributes Across Data Operations

2packages dependsuggested by 1

10.4Kdownloads / year

71.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher BrownCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 0.5.6.1

Fix README.md badge links

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 58 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.6.1

READMEYes · 350 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.6.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 67%2 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 17%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to Sticky Attributes HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

10.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,752 · ~28/day · ~866/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

57430 days

1.8K90 days

10.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on146 r2u7 autocran1.6K conda_forge69 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

decisionpatterns/sticky ↗Organization: decisionpatterns

22Stars

2Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

48Commits

1Commit identities

48 commits · Last activity 2020-03-15

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/decisionpatterns/sticky on 2026-10-21.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

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

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

asremlPlus ggperiodic

Suggests, most downloaded first

limonaid

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Christopher Brown

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.3 (2016)

Decision Patterns

Copyright holder

Releases (5)

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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
0.5.6.1Latest
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2020-03-16 · current release · diff ↗
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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
0.5.2
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2017-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
sticky_all, unsticky
0.4.0
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2016-11-01 · diff ↗
0.3.6
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2016-10-04 · diff ↗
0.3.3
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2016-09-26
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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

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 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 sticky version 0.5.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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