R Observatory: Metrics for tidyr version 1.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tidyr

1.3.2Package record

Tidy Messy Data

2,516packages dependsuggested by 699

15.5Mdownloads / year

99.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Tools to help to create tidy data, where each column is a variable, each row is an observation, and each cell contains a single value. 'tidyr' contains tools for changing the shape (pivoting) and hierarchy (nesting and 'unnesting') of a dataset, turning deeply nested lists into rectangular data frames ('rectangling'), and extracting values out of string columns. It also includes tools for working with missing values (both implicit and explicit).

Changes in 1.3.2

fill() gains a .by argument as an alternative to dplyr::group_by() for applying the fill per group, similar to nest(.by =) and dplyr::mutate(.by =) (@olivroy, #1439).
expand_grid() gains a new .vary argument, allowing users to control whether the first column varies fastest or slowest (#1543, @JamesHWade).
unnest_longer() now places indices_to columns before value columns (#1486, @andrewshibata).
unchop() produces a more helpful error message when columns cannot be cast to ptype (@mgirlich, #1477).
unite() no longer errors if you provide a selection that doesn't select any columns. Instead, it returns a column containing the empty string (#1548, @catalamarti).
pivot_wider_spec() now throws a more informative error on non-data frame inputs (@catalamarti, #1510).

Show all changes in 1.3.2Hide the rest of the changes in 1.3.2

Fixed an internal error in pivot_wider() (#1609, @krlmlr).
R >=4.1.0 is now required, in line with the tidyverse standard of supporting the previous 5 minor releases of R (#1613).
The base pipe is now used throughout the documentation (#1613).
tidyr now requires dplyr >=1.1.0 (#1568, @catalamarti).
tidyr is now compliant with R's C API (#1618).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tidyr", 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("tidyverse/tidyr")

Development version from tidyverse/tidyr. 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-tidyr

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-tidyr

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-tidyr

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

Additional issues

rchk

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-30

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NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.2

READMEYes · 489 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 49 (12 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%31 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 12%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

15.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #43 · ~42.3K/day · ~1.3M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1M30 days

3.4M90 days

15.5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on229.1K r2u139 autocran1.5M conda_forge20.7K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

tidyverse/tidyr ↗Organization: tidyverse

1,445Stars

417Forks

46Open issues

14Open PRs

32Releases

1,429Commits

140Commit identities

rtidy-data

1,429 commits · Last activity 2026-06-02 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.3.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.3.2 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 76%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 94
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-24 · 1,3972026-10-21 · 1,445

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/tidyverse/tidyr 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

Governance and community (5)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesCODEOWNERSSupport guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-09

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-09-19
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

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

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tidyr adds 19 packages (11 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

cli dplyr glue lifecycle magrittr purrr rlang stringr (>= 1.5.0)tibble tidyselectutilsvctrs

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (7)

covr data.table knitr readr repurrrsive rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2,516direct

2,364indirect

Depends 22 · Imports 2,494

Suggested by 699

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 2,468 more dependents and 699 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3.0

Maximilian Girlich

Author · added in 1.2.0

Davis Vaughan

Author · added in 1.3.0

Kevin Ushey

Contributor · added in 1.3.0

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.3.1

Maintainer since 0.1 (2014)

Listed in earlier versions (4)

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Hadley Wickham <hadley@rstudio.com> [aut, cre] RStudio [cph]

no longer listed · 0.2.0

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.3.0 to 1.2.1

Lionel Henry

no longer listed · 0.7.0 to 1.1.1

Posit, PBC

no longer listed · 1.3.0

Releases (32)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.3.2Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.0
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2023-01-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
separate_longer_delim, separate_longer_position, separate_wider_delim, separate_wider_position, separate_wider_regex
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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added 3 exports
all_of, any_of, check_pivot_spec
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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1.0.0
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2019-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 29 exports
as_tibble, build_longer_spec, build_wider_spec, chop, contains, ends_with, everything, expand_grid, hoist, last_col, matches, nest_legacy, num_range, one_of, pack, pivot_longer, pivot_longer_spec, pivot_wider, pivot_wider_spec, starts_with, tibble, tidyr_legacy, tribble, unchop, unnest_auto, unnest_legacy, unnest_longer, unnest_wider, unpack
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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uncount
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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crossing_, drop_na, drop_na_, nesting_
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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seq_range

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crossing, full_seq, nesting
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added 8 exports
%>%, complete, complete_, fill, fill_, nest, nest_, replace_na
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added 5 exports
expand, expand_, seq_range, unnest, unnest_
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2014-07-21
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-07-21
Total releases: 32 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 347 KB / 19 files
Download size: 790 KB

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Wickham, H., Posit Software, PBC, Girlich, M., Ushey, K., & Vaughan, D. (2025). tidyr: Tidy Messy Data (Version 1.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tidyr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tidyr version 1.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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