R Observatory: Metrics for tarchives version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tarchives

0.2.0Package record

Make Your 'targets' Pipelines into a Package

0packages depend

710downloads / year

99.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mizuki UchidaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Runs 'targets' pipelines bundled inside a package and caches the results in the R user cache directory, so that users of the package do not need to rerun the pipeline themselves. Package authors can update the cached results at any time by releasing a new package version.

Changes in 0.2.0

The archive functions now validate their package and pipeline arguments and report a clear error when the package or pipeline cannot be found.
tarchives no longer depends on usethis.
tar_archive_pipelines() lists the pipelines bundled in a package.
tar_archive_pipelines(), tar_archive_script(), tar_make_archive(), tar_manifest_archive(), and tar_source_archive() now correctly resolve package when it is loaded with pkgload::load_all() (e.g. during interactive package development), instead of silently falling back to the installed copy.
tar_destroy_archive() removes the cached store of an archived pipeline.
tar_load_archive() loads archived targets into an environment.
tar_manifest_archive() lists the targets defined in an archived pipeline.
tar_meta_archive() reads the metadata of an archived pipeline's store.
tar_read_archive(), tar_load_archive(), and tar_meta_archive() now fail with an informative error when the archived store has not been built yet.
tar_target_archive() now builds and reads the archive when the target runs rather than when the target script is sourced, so inspecting a pipeline with tar_manifest() or tar_visnetwork() no longer triggers a build. The target tracks the installed version of the package, so it refreshes the data when a new version of the package providing the archive is installed and is skipped otherwise.
Tests no longer leave files in the user cache directory (tools::R_user_dir("tarchives", "cache")) during R CMD check, which caused the package to be archived on CRAN.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tarchives", 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("UchidaMizuki/tarchives")

Development version from UchidaMizuki/tarchives. 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-tarchives

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-tarchives

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-tarchives

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: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK6 OK2026-07-13

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 322 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 14 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 54%7 run in a plain check · 6 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

710

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,613 · ~2/day · ~59/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

17830 days

58890 days

7101 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on71 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

uchidamizuki/tarchives ↗Account: UchidaMizuki

7Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

84Commits

1Commit identities

84 commits · Last activity 2026-10-17 · +40% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 11
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 12026-10-13 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/uchidamizuki/tarchives 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

Docs source (4)

README.qmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-17

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio 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 2026-06-07
Seen in the repository: .claude
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 25 crediting it in the message

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.815 commits · Jun 2026
Claude Opus 5.55 commits · Oct 2026
Claude Sonnet 55 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

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tarchives adds 31 packages (18 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, fs 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (6)

callr cli fs rlang targets withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Mizuki Uchida

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-07-12
0.2.0Latest
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first seen 2026-07-12 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
tar_archive_pipelines, tar_destroy_archive, tar_load_archive, tar_manifest_archive, tar_meta_archive
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-03-03
issues were not corrected in time
0.1.1
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2025-06-22 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2025-06-04
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-06-04
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 29 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tarchives")

Format

Uchida, M. (2026). tarchives: Make Your 'targets' Pipelines into a Package (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tarchives

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tarchives version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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