R Observatory: Metrics for useful version 1.2.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

useful

1.2.7Package record

A Collection of Handy, Useful Functions

4packages depend

35.2Kdownloads / year

89.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jared P. LanderCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A set of little functions that have been found useful to do little odds and ends such as plotting the results of K-means clustering, substituting special text characters, viewing parts of a data.frame, constructing formulas from text and building design and response matrices.

Changes in 1.2.7

Using autoplot to plot acf objects.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("useful", 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("jaredlander/useful")

Development version from jaredlander/useful. 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-useful

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-useful

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-useful

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: 4.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 1.2.7

READMEYes · 58 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.2.7Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 58 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 98%54 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 5%

How these are measured

Downloads

35.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,687 · ~97/day · ~2.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2K30 days

5.6K90 days

35.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on420 r2u4 autocran1.3K conda_forge138 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

jaredlander/useful ↗Account: jaredlander

8Stars

6Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

239Commits

6Commit identities

239 commits · Last activity 2026-02-25

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 38

Stars over time

2024-08-10 · 82026-07-07 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jaredlander/useful on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-02-16
Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/skills, CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: CLAUDE.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing useful adds 29 packages (15 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

ggplot2

Imports (10)

plyr dplyr purrrstatsscalesutilsMatrixassertthat tibble rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

1indirect

Imports 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

coefplot SurvHiDim causalHyperGraph resumer

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Jared P. Lander

Maintainer since at least 1.1.8 (2013), Author

Daniel Chen

Contributor · added in 1.2.4

Nicholas Galasinao

Contributor · added in 1.2.4

Joshua Kraut

Contributor · added in 1.2.4

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Jared P.

no longer listed · 1.2.4 to 1.2.7

Releases (18)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.7Latest
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2026-02-26 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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load_packages
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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
1.2.6
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2018-10-08 · diff ↗ ·
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load_packages
1.2.5
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2018-06-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
plot.acf
1.2.4
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2018-05-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
timeSingle
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.2.3
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2017-06-07 · diff ↗
1.2.2
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2017-05-25 · diff ↗

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.2.1
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2016-06-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
uniqueBidirection
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.2.0
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2016-01-10 · diff ↗
1.1.9
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2015-09-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
corner.data.frame, corner.default, corner.matrix, fortify.acf, fortify.ts

added 22 exports
reclass<-, cart2pol, classdf, colsToBack, colsToFront, constant, find.case, indexToPosition, lower.case, mixed.case, moveToBack, moveToFront, numeric.case, pol2cart, positionToIndex, reclass, simple.impute, simple.impute.data.frame, simple.impute.default, subMultiple, subVector, upper.case
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
1.1.8
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2014-01-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
plot.ts

added 9 exports
build.x, build.y, interval.check, multiple, multiple.comma, multiple.dollar, multiple.identity, multiple_format, plotTimesSeries
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
1.1.6
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2012-09-29 · diff ↗
1.1.5
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2012-06-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
binary.flip, fortify.acf, fortify.kmeans, fortify.ts, plot.acf, plot.kmeans, plot.ts, shift.column, ts.plotter, vplayout
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
1.1.4
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2012-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
build.formula
1.1.3
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2012-03-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
compare.list
1.1.2
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2012-01-04 · diff ↗
1.1.1
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2011-11-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
bottomleft, bottomright, left, right, topleft, topright
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
1.0
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

Package metadata

First published: 2011-10-27
Total releases: 18 / 15 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 52 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("useful")

Format

Lander, J. P., Chen, D., Galasinao, N., & Kraut, J. (2026). useful: A Collection of Handy, Useful Functions (Version 1.2.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.useful

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for useful version 1.2.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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