R Observatory: Metrics for subprocess version 0.8.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2020-01-31. Its history is shown below.

Reason: the request of the maintainer. After giving notice to revdeps. He said 'processx' was a suitable replacement

Details below reflect version 0.8.3, its last release before removal.

subprocess

0.8.3Package record

Manage Sub-Processes in R

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lukasz BartnikCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create and handle multiple sub-processes in R, exchange data over standard input and output streams, control their life cycle.

Changes in 0.8.3

fixes building under Solaris
replace select() with poll()
new API: process_exists()

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/subprocess/subprocess_0.8.3.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "subprocess_0.8.3.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.8.3) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("lbartnik/subprocess")

Development version from lbartnik/subprocess. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.3

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.8.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 17%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 13%

How these are measured

Downloads

subprocess Releases R versions

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

mockery testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Lukasz Bartnik

Author, Maintainer since 0.7.4 (2016)

Releases (5)

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R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-01-31
the request of the maintainer After giving notice to revdeps. He said 'processx' was a suitable replacement
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.8.3
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2018-08-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
process_exists
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.8.2
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2017-10-22 · diff ↗
0.8.1
record
2017-10-06 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.8.0
record
2017-01-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
process_poll

added 6 exports
C_tests_utf8, PIPE_BOTH, PIPE_STDERR, PIPE_STDOUT, process_close_input, process_state
0.7.4
record
2016-11-29
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-29
Total releases: 5 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("subprocess")

Format

Bartnik, L. (n.d.). subprocess: Manage Sub-Processes in R (Version 0.8.3) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 27, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=subprocess

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 subprocess version 0.8.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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