R Observatory: Metrics for strex version 2.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

strex

2.1.0Package record

Extra String Manipulation Functions

8packages depend

23Kdownloads / year

98.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rory NolanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

There are some things that I wish were easier with the 'stringr' or 'stringi' packages. The foremost of these is the extraction of numbers from strings. 'stringr' and 'stringi' make you figure out the regular expression for yourself; 'strex' takes care of this for you. There are many other handy functionalities in 'strex'. Contributions to this package are encouraged; it is intended as a miscellany of string manipulation functions that cannot be found in 'stringi' or 'stringr'.

Changes in 2.1.0

BUG FIXES

Numeric extraction functions (e.g. str_extract_numbers(), str_nth_number(), str_nth_number_before_mth(), str_nth_number_after_mth(), str_extract_non_numerics(), str_nth_non_numeric(), str_split_by_numbers()) no longer error on NA input or on strings with no matching number; they now correctly return NA (#11).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("strex", 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("rorynolan/strex")

Development version from rorynolan/strex. 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-strex

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-strex

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-strex

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: 5.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 26includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%25 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

23K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,823 · ~63/day · ~1.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7K30 days

5.3K90 days

23K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on667 r2u8 autocran7.7K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

rorynolan/strex ↗Account: rorynolan

40Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

13Releases

138Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 138 commits · Last activity 2026-07-05

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rorynolan/strex 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)

Contributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-05 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-03
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 52 commits · Jul 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing strex adds 10 packages (8 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5stringr

Imports (7)

checkmate lifecycle magrittr rlang (>= 1.0)statsstringiutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

bench covr knitr purrr rmarkdown spelling testthat (>= 3.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

8indirect

Imports 8

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ijtiff autothresholdr filesstrings PriceIndices exampletestr tidybins macroBiome tidygeoRSS

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Rory Nolan

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Releases (25)

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2.1.0Latest
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removed 3 exports
str_get_currencies, str_get_currency, str_split_by_nums

added 6 exports
str_elems, str_extract_currencies, str_first_currency, str_last_currency, str_nth_currency, str_split_by_numbers
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Package metadata

First published: 2018-09-01
Total releases: 25 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 142 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("strex")

Format

Nolan, R. (2026). strex: Extra String Manipulation Functions (Version 2.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.strex

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for strex version 2.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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