R Observatory: Metrics for surveydown version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

surveydown

1.3.0

Markdown-Based Programmable Surveys Using 'Quarto' and 'shiny'

1packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

0.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by John Paul HelvestonFirst published 2024-11-0114 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Generate programmable surveys using markdown and R code chunks. Surveys are composed of two files: a survey.qmd 'Quarto' file defining the survey content (pages, questions, etc), and an app.R file defining a 'shiny' app with global settings (libraries, database configuration, etc.) and server configuration options (e.g., conditional skipping / display, etc.). Survey data collected from respondents is stored in a 'PostgreSQL' database. Features include controls for conditional skip logic (skip to a page based on an answer to a question), conditional display logic (display a question based on an answer to a question), a customizable progress bar, and a wide variety of question types, including multiple choice (single choice and multiple choices), select, text, numeric, multiple choice buttons, text area, and dates. Because the surveys render into a 'shiny' app, designers can also leverage the reactive capabilities of 'shiny' to create dynamic and interactive surveys.

Install

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

install.packages("surveydown", 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("surveydown-dev/surveydown")

Development version from surveydown-dev/surveydown. 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-surveydown

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-surveydown

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

0.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

20

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-07
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 520 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 90%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 97%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,407 · ~16/day · ~473/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30830 days

1.1K90 days

5.7K1 year

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Also on201 r2u

Repository

GitHub ↗ surveydown-dev/surveydown

180Stars

24Forks

15Open issues

2Open PRs

3Releases

1,450Commits

12Contributors

markdownrsurveyquartoshinyshiny-appsshiny-rsupabase

1,450 commits · Last activity 2026-06-23 · +1.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-20 · 1202026-08-21 · 180

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/surveydown-dev/surveydown on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Show all practices

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2025-06-11

claude

Most recent: claude on 2025-06-11

Evidence

claude: on 2025-06-11 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (20)

cli DBI dotenv fs htmltools jsonlite markdown miniUI pool quarto rmarkdown RPostgres rstudioapi rvest shiny shinyjs shinyWidgetsutilsxml2 yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

glue knitr leaflet testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

sdstudio

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

John Paul Helveston

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (3)

John Paul Helveston

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Bogdan Bunea

Author, Copyright holder

Pingfan Hu

Author, Copyright holder

Contributors (4)

Reed Benkendorf

Contributor · added in 1.3.0

Umair Durrani

Contributor · added in 1.3.0

Stefan Munnes

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Dylan Pieper

Contributor · added in 1.3.0

Copyright holders (3)

John Paul Helveston

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Bogdan Bunea

Author, Copyright holder

Pingfan Hu

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

14 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.3.0Latest
2026-06-23 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1
2025-12-19 · diff ↗
0.14.0
2025-11-03 · diff ↗
0.13.3
2025-09-30 · diff ↗
0.13.0
2025-08-20 · diff ↗
0.12.6
2025-07-07 · diff ↗
0.11.0
2025-04-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.10.1
2025-04-08 · diff ↗
0.9.0
2025-03-18 · diff ↗
0.8.0
2025-01-27 · diff ↗
0.7.2
2024-12-13 · diff ↗
0.5.1
2024-11-27 · diff ↗
0.5.0
2024-11-25 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2024-11-01

Show 1 earlier events

R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-01
Total releases: 14 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 650 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("surveydown")

Format

Helveston, J. P., Benkendorf, R., Bunea, B., Durrani, U., Hu, P., Munnes, S., & Pieper, D. (2026). surveydown: Markdown-Based Programmable Surveys Using 'Quarto' and 'shiny' (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.surveydown

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for surveydown version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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