R Observatory: Metrics for tutorial.helpers version 0.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tutorial.helpers

0.7.0Package record

Helper Functions for Creating Tutorials

2packages depend

10.6Kdownloads / year

62.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David KaneCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Helper functions for creating, editing, and testing tutorials created with the 'learnr' package. Provides a simple method for allowing students to download their answers to tutorial questions. For examples of its use, see the 'r4ds.tutorials' package.

Changes in 0.7.0

Remove set_positron_settings() and set_rprofile_settings(). We no longer support configuring Positron or .Rprofile settings.
Remove all tutorials except "Getting Started," which now uses VS Code on GitHub Codespaces.
Fix bugs in the submissions functions: submissions_summary() ignored its emails argument and duplicated rows for overlapping title patterns, and it and check_membership() mishandled older submission files.
Fix format_tutorial() and determine_exercise_number() bugs that produced malformed chunk labels and exercise numbers.
Improve show_file(): empty files no longer error, code chunks of any language are recognized, and the pattern filter applies in all modes.
Drop the dplyr, purrr, mime, and jsonlite dependencies. Examples for the submissions_* functions now run on shipped sample files instead of being wrapped in \dontrun{}.
Finalize "Tutorials in the Age of AI" vignette.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tutorial.helpers", 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("PPBDS/tutorial.helpers")

Development version from PPBDS/tutorial.helpers. 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-tutorial.helpers

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-tutorial.helpers

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-tutorial.helpers

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: 3.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.0

READMEYes · 465 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 22 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 62%8 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 65%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

10.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,669 · ~29/day · ~881/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

90430 days

2.7K90 days

10.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on118 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ppbds/tutorial.helpers ↗Organization: PPBDS

7Stars

15Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

12Releases

844Commits

12Commit identities

844 commits · Last activity 2026-08-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.7.0.9004, ahead of CRAN 0.7.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 78%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-05 · 72026-07-07 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ppbds/tutorial.helpers on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-15

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-05
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Commits: at least 11 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 510 commits · Jul to Aug 2026
Claude Opus 4.71 commit · May 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

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tutorial.helpers adds 59 packages (31 with compiled code, 37 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

knitr learnr rmarkdown rstudioapi rvest shiny tibbleutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

googledrive quarto testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

r4ds.tutorials positron.tutorials

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

David Kane

Releases (12)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.7.0Latest
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2026-07-27 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
set_positron_settings, set_rprofile_settings
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.1
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2025-12-23 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2025-09-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
ensure_quarto, process_submissions, set_binary_only_in_r_profile, set_rstudio_settings

added 10 exports
check_key_vars, check_membership, download_google_drive, gather_submissions, get_submissions_from_learnr_session, match_questions, open_github_pages, set_rprofile_settings, submissions_answers, submissions_summary
0.5.0
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2025-05-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.2
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2025-03-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
check_current_tutorial, ensure_quarto, set_positron_settings
0.3.1
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2024-12-07 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2024-06-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
process_submissions, show_file
0.2.7
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2024-05-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
format_tutorial
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.6
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2024-01-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
determine_code_chunk_name, determine_exercise_number, make_exercise
0.2.5
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2023-05-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
set_binary_only_in_r_profile, set_rstudio_settings
0.2.3
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2023-05-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
write_answers
0.2.2
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2023-05-08
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-08
Total releases: 12 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.1 MB

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Format

Kane, D. (2026). tutorial.helpers: Helper Functions for Creating Tutorials (Version 0.7.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tutorial.helpers

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tutorial.helpers version 0.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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