R Observatory: Metrics for tester version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tester

0.3.0

Tests and Checks Characteristics of R Objects

4packages depend

45.3Kdownloads / year

1.4%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Frederic BertrandFirst published 2013-07-016 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Allows users to test characteristics of common R objects.

Install

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

install.packages("tester", 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("fbertran/tester")

Development version from fbertran/tester. 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-tester

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-tester

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-tester

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.05

1.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-11
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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 4%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

45.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,153 · ~124/day · ~3.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.9K30 days

9.6K90 days

45.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.4K r2u23 autocran1.8K conda_forge54 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ fbertran/tester

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

4Commits

1Contributors

4 commits · Last activity 2025-09-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-11-01 · 12026-07-07 · 2

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fbertran/tester on 2026-08-16.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

1indirect

spselect orchaRd plspm turner

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Frederic Bertrand

Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Authors (1)

Gaston Sanchez

Author

Package Timeline

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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Package metadata

First published: 2013-07-01
Total releases: 6 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Download size: 124 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tester")

Format

Bertrand, F., & Sanchez, G. (2025). tester: Tests and Checks Characteristics of R Objects (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tester

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 tester version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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