R Observatory: Metrics for varhandle version 2.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

varhandle

2.0.6Package record

Functions for Robust Variable Handling

5packages dependsuggested by 2

18Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mehrad MahmoudianCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗Issues ↗

Variables are the fundamental parts of each programming language but handling them efficiently might be frustrating for programmers. This package contains some functions to help user (especially data explorers) to make more sense of their variables and take the most out of variables and hardware resources. These functions are written and crafted since 2014 with years of experience in statistical data analysis on high-dimensional data, and for each of them there was a need. Functions in this package are supposed to be efficient and easy to use, hence they will be frequently updated to make them more convenient.

Changes in 2.0.6

Fixed some typos in the documentation
Fixed the issue related to not non-updated man/varhandle-package.Rd. Thanks to Kurt Hornik for pointing it out.

Changes to existing functions

to.dummy()
Updated to use inherits() instead of comparing class() manually

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("varhandle", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-varhandle

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-varhandle

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-varhandle

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: 50 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.6

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

18K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,227 · ~49/day · ~1.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

3.6K90 days

18K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on338 r2u3 autocran2.1K conda_forge83 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

codeberg.org/mehrad/varhandle ↗

0Stars

0Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

rr-package

Last activity 2023-09-30

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

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

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository codeberg.org/mehrad/varhandle is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing varhandle adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.1

Imports (2)

utilsgraphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

DWLS MLDataR OVtool sivs messy.cats

Suggests, most downloaded first

NHSRdatasets MAIVE

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Mehrad Mahmoudian

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2015)

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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2020-02-21
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2020-02-19
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-07-04 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-05-11 · 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
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-09-04
Total releases: 8 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.1
Download size: 21 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("varhandle")

Format

Mahmoudian, M. (2023). varhandle: Functions for Robust Variable Handling (Version 2.0.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.varhandle

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for varhandle version 2.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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