R Observatory: Metrics for theorytools version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

theorytools

0.1.3

FAIR Theory Construction

0packages depend

6.7Kdownloads / year

43.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Caspar J. Van LissaFirst published 2025-01-144 releasesCRAN page ↗

An integrated suite of tools for creating, maintaining, and reusing FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) theories. Designed to support transparent and collaborative theory development, the package enables users to formalize theories, track changes with version control, assess pre-empirical coherence, and derive testable hypotheses. Aligning with open science principles and workflows, 'theorytools' facilitates the systematic improvement of theoretical frameworks and enhances their discoverability and usability.

Install

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

install.packages("theorytools", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-theorytools

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-theorytools

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-theorytools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 7.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.29

43.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

13

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
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 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 · 253 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 82%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 9%

Downloads

6.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,926 · ~18/day · ~560/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23730 days

1.2K90 days

6.7K1 year

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Also on125 r2u13 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ cjvanlissa/theorytools

7Stars

4Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

79Commits

5Contributors

79 commits · Last activity 2026-02-07 · +16.7% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-03-12 · 32026-08-10 · 7

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/cjvanlissa/theorytools on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (13)

worcs gert gh cli jsonlite curl knitr dagitty yaml tidySEMmethodsDeriv stringdist

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

rmarkdown testthat pkgdown webexercises withr usethis fs ggplot2 igraph bookdown reticulate

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Caspar J. Van Lissa

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Caspar J. Van Lissa

Author, Maintainer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Van Lissa

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.1.3

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.3Latest
2026-02-07 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.2
2025-07-13 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2025-06-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
2025-01-14
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-01-14
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 58 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("theorytools")

Format

Van Lissa, C. J. (2026). theorytools: FAIR Theory Construction (Version 0.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.theorytools

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 theorytools version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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