R Observatory: Metrics for txtq version 0.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

txtq

0.2.4

A Small Message Queue for Parallel Processes

2packages depend

28.9Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by William Michael LandauFirst published 2018-06-1511 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

This queue is a data structure that lets parallel processes send and receive messages, and it can help coordinate the work of complicated parallel tasks. Processes can push new messages to the queue, pop old messages, and obtain a log of all the messages ever pushed. File locking preserves the integrity of the data even when multiple processes access the queue simultaneously.

Install

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

install.packages("txtq", 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("wlandau/txtq")

Development version from wlandau/txtq. 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-txtq

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-txtq

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-txtq

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.68

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 529 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

28.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,723 · ~79/day · ~2.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

65430 days

2.5K90 days

28.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ wlandau/txtq

23Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

14Releases

115Commits

4Contributors

115 commits · Last activity 2021-03-27

Stars over time

2022-09-27 · 232026-07-07 · 23

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/wlandau/txtq on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesPR template

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

base64url filelock R6

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

parallelpurrr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

1indirect

drake ipc

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Ian E. Fellows

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Eli Lilly and Company

Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Landau

no longer listed · 0.0.4 to 0.2.4

Fellows

no longer listed · 0.1.2 to 0.2.4

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.4Latest
2021-03-27 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.3
2020-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.0
2019-10-15 · diff ↗
0.1.6
2019-09-15 · diff ↗
0.1.5
2019-08-19 · diff ↗
0.1.4
2019-07-19 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2019-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.2
2019-01-06 · diff ↗

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2018-10-24 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2018-09-14 · diff ↗
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2018-06-15
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-06-15
Total releases: 11 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 13 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("txtq")

Format

Landau, W. M., Eli Lilly and Company, , & Fellows, I. E. (2021). txtq: A Small Message Queue for Parallel Processes (Version 0.2.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.txtq

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for txtq version 0.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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