R Observatory: Metrics for supportR version 1.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

supportR

1.6.1Package record

Support Functions for Wrangling and Visualization

1packages depend

5.6Kdownloads / year

43.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicholas J LyonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Suite of helper functions for data wrangling and visualization. The only theme for these functions is that they tend towards simple, short, and narrowly-scoped. These functions are built for tasks that often recur but are not large enough in scope to warrant an ecosystem of interdependent functions.

Changes in 1.6.1

New Features

spellcheck_quarto() runs spelling::spell_check_files() on all Quarto files (.qmd) that would be rendered (e.g., to make a website)

Documentation / Testing

Updates maintainer email.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("supportR", 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("njlyon0/supportR")

Development version from njlyon0/supportR. 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-supportr

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-supportR

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-supportR

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: 1.8 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 1.6.1

READMEYes · 153 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.6.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 26 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 64%14 run in a plain check · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,719 · ~15/day · ~468/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

62830 days

1.3K90 days

5.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on108 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

njlyon0/supportr ↗Account: njlyon0

9Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

453Commits

2Commit identities

r-packagedata-science

453 commits · Last activity 2026-09-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.6.1.900, ahead of CRAN 1.6.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-29 · 72026-07-07 · 9

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/njlyon0/supportr on 2026-10-11.

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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-21

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing supportR adds 70 packages (37 with compiled code, 57 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (18)

data.tree dplyr ggplot2 gh googledrivegraphicslifecycle magrittrmethodspurrr rlang rmarkdown scales spelling stringi stringr tidyr vegan

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

ape devtools knitr palmerpenguins testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ltertools

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Nicholas J Lyon

Releases (8)

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1.6.1Latest
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2026-09-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
spellcheck_quarto
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.6.0
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2025-12-21 · diff ↗
1.5.0
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2025-06-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
count_diff
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.4.0
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2024-06-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
count, ordination, replace_non_ascii
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3.0
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2024-04-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
force_num, safe_rename, tabularize_md
1.2.0
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2023-08-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
name_vec
1.1.0
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2023-07-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
github_ls, github_tree
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.0
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2023-02-09
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-09
Total releases: 8 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 347 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("supportR")

Format

Lyon, N. J. (2026). supportR: Support Functions for Wrangling and Visualization (Version 1.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.supportR

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 supportR version 1.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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