R Observatory: Metrics for toscutil version 2.8.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

toscutil

2.8.0Package record

Utility Functions

2packages dependsuggested by 1

3.7Kdownloads / year

41.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tobias SchmidtCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Base R sometimes requires verbose statements for simple, often recurring tasks, such as printing text without trailing space, ending with newline. This package aims at providing shorthands for such tasks.

Install

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

install.packages("toscutil", 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("toscm/toscutil")

Development version from toscm/toscutil. 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-toscutil

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-toscutil

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-toscutil

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.8.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 46 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 91%42 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,029 · ~10/day · ~308/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36630 days

86190 days

3.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on80 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

toscm/toscutil ↗Account: toscm

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

16Releases

59Commits

2Commit identities

59 commits · Last activity 2026-06-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.13.0, ahead of CRAN 2.8.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 120
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-08 · 22026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/toscm/toscutil on 2026-10-11.

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 (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-15

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-02-15
Seen in the repository: .github/copilot-instructions.md
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 6 by its own account
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-15
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member

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

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing toscutil adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 766 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

utilsrlangtools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

devtools languageserver testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

metabodecon metabodeconplus

Suggests, most downloaded first

FastRet

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Tobias Schmidt

Author, Maintainer since 2.1.0 (2022)

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.8.0Latest
record
2024-06-28 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
check_pkg_docs, fg, find_description_file, get_pkg_docs, logf, read_description_file, trace_package, untrace_package
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.7.4
record
2023-09-05 · diff ↗
2.7.3
record
2023-08-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
DOCSTRING_TEMPLATE, capture.output2, dput2, get_docstring, get_formals, help2, split_docstring, update_docstring
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.5.0
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2022-06-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 16 exports
caller, catf, catfn, catnn, catsn, config_dir, config_file, data_dir, function_locals, home, locals, norm_path, now_ms, stub, xdg_config_home, xdg_data_home
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.1.0
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2022-02-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-22
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 36 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("toscutil")

Format

Schmidt, T. (2024). toscutil: Utility Functions (Version 2.8.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.toscutil

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for toscutil version 2.8.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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