R Observatory: Metrics for unix version 1.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

unix

1.6.0

POSIX System Utilities

5packages depend

44.9Kdownloads / year

40.7%test coverage

10/10checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsFirst published 2017-04-0314 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Bindings to system utilities found in most Unix systems such as POSIX functions which are not part of the Standard C Library.

Install

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

install.packages("unix", 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("jeroen/unix")

Development version from jeroen/unix. 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-unix

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-unix

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-unix

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

Health

CRAN checks

10OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.33

40.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
9 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-29
10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-23
10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 67%

Downloads

44.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,314 · ~123/day · ~3.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.4K30 days

8.1K90 days

44.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jeroen/unix

22Stars

0Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

94Commits

1Contributors

94 commits · Last activity 2026-04-23

Stars over time

2025-03-04 · 222026-07-07 · 22

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jeroen/unix on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

RAppArmor Ryacas opencpu projpred sys

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

14 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
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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1.5.1
2020-01-31 · diff ↗
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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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2017-04-21 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-04-03
Total releases: 14 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 20 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("unix")

Format

Ooms, J. (2026). unix: POSIX System Utilities (Version 1.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.unix

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for unix version 1.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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