R Observatory: Metrics for urltools version 1.7.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

urltools

1.7.3.1Package record

Vectorised Tools for URL Handling and Parsing

42packages dependsuggested by 2

476.4Kdownloads / year

81.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Os KeyesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A toolkit for all URL-handling needs, including encoding and decoding, parsing, parameter extraction and modification. All functions are designed to be both fast and entirely vectorised. It is intended to be useful for people dealing with web-related datasets, such as server-side logs, although may be useful for other situations involving large sets of URLs.

Install

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

install.packages("urltools", 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("Ironholds/urltools")

Development version from Ironholds/urltools. 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-urltools

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-urltools

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-urltools

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-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-11
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-10
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.7.3.1

READMEYes · 190 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 22includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 89%17 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 58%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

urltools

How these are measured

Downloads

476.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #624 · ~1.3K/day · ~39.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30.8K30 days

93.6K90 days

476.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on9.3K r2u241 autocran228.2K conda_forge205 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ironholds/urltools ↗Account: Ironholds

135Stars

29Forks

18Open issues

4Open PRs

12Releases

255Commits

23Commit identities

rurlaccess-logsdata-import

255 commits · Last activity 2025-04-22 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.7.4, ahead of CRAN 1.7.3.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-06-30 · 1322026-09-10 · 135

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ironholds/urltools on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing urltools adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, triebeard 31 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (3)

Rcppmethodstriebeard

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (2)

testthat knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

42direct

152indirect

Imports 42

Suggested by 2

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

dbx vosonSML

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (11)

Os Keyes

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.7.2

Jay Jacobs

Author · added in 1.2.0

Drew Schmidt

Author · added in 1.6.0

Mark Greenaway

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Xueyuan Jiang

Contributor · added in 1.7.0

Maryam Khezrzadeh

Contributor · added in 1.5.1

Peter Meilstrup

Contributor · added in 1.7.0

Alex Pinto

Contributor · added in 1.5.1

Bob Rudis

Contributor · added in 1.2.1

Jeff Bezanson

Copyright holder · added in 1.6.0

Adam M. Costello

Copyright holder · added in 1.6.0

Maintainer since 0.5 (2014)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Oliver Keyes

no longer listed · 0.5 to 1.7.1

Costello

no longer listed · 1.7.3.1

Releases (16)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.7.3.1Latest
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2025-06-12 · current release · diff ↗
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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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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.7.3
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2019-04-15 · diff ↗
1.7.2
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2019-02-04 · diff ↗
1.7.1
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2018-08-03 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.7.0
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2018-01-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
url_parameters

added 2 exports
get_credentials, strip_credentials
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.6.0
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2016-10-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
puny_decode, puny_encode

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1.5.1
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2016-08-31 · diff ↗
1.5.0
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2016-08-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
host_extract, suffix_refresh, tld_extract, tld_refresh
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.4.0
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2016-04-12 · diff ↗
1.3.2
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2015-10-11 · diff ↗
1.3.1
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2015-10-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
suffix_refresh

added 3 exports
param_get, param_remove, param_set
1.2.1
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2015-08-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
suffix_refresh
1.2.0
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2015-06-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
query<-, query

added 4 exports
parameters<-, parameters, suffix_extract, url_compose
1.1.0
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2015-04-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
extract_host, extract_parameter, replace_parameter

added 13 exports
domain<-, fragment<-, path<-, port<-, query<-, scheme<-, domain, fragment, path, port, query, scheme, url_parameters
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.6
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2014-12-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
url_param

added 3 exports
extract_host, extract_parameter, replace_parameter
0.5
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2014-12-09
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-12-09
Total releases: 16 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 65 KB / 2 files
Download size: 121 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("urltools")

Format

Keyes, O., Bezanson, J., Costello, A. M., Greenaway, M., Jacobs, J., Jiang, X., Khezrzadeh, M., Meilstrup, P., Pinto, A., Rudis, B., & Schmidt, D. (2025). urltools: Vectorised Tools for URL Handling and Parsing (Version 1.7.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.urltools

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for urltools version 1.7.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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