R Observatory: Metrics for vctrs version 0.7.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vctrs

0.7.3

Vector Helpers

444packages depend

24.4Mdownloads / year

88.4%test coverage

7/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Davis VaughanFirst published 2018-11-2931 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Defines new notions of prototype and size that are used to provide tools for consistent and well-founded type-coercion and size-recycling, and are in turn connected to ideas of type- and size-stability useful for analysing function interfaces.

Install

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

install.packages("vctrs", 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("r-lib/vctrs")

Development version from r-lib/vctrs. 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-vctrs

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-vctrs

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-vctrs

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

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR5NOTE7OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
ERROR r-release-macos-x86_64

Slowest check: 8.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.65

88.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-05-02
9 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-30
9 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-28
8 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-15
8 OK · 6 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-30
5 OK · 8 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 4 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-03-28
7 OK · 7 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-26
7 OK · 6 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-21
2 OK · 7 NOTE · 5 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
2 OK · 6 NOTE · 5 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 263 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 54%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

24.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3 · ~66.9K/day · ~2M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.2M30 days

6.7M90 days

24.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on345.1K r2u165 autocran2M conda_forge3.1K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/vctrs

306Stars

76Forks

165Open issues

19Open PRs

31Releases

3,954Commits

40Contributors

rs3-vectors

3,954 commits · Last activity 2026-04-17 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-10 · 2932026-08-17 · 306

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/vctrs on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Show all practices

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Git structural (1)

blame-ignore revs

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (4)

cli glue lifecycle rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

bit64 covr crayon dplyr generics knitr pillar pkgdown rmarkdown testthat (>= 3.0.0)tibble waldo withr xml2 zeallot

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

444direct

11,295indirect

and 398 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Davis Vaughan

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Authors (3)

Davis Vaughan

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Lionel Henry

Author · added in 0.2.0

Hadley Wickham

Author

Copyright holders (2)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.6.0

data.table team

Copyright holder · added in 0.3.5

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.6.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.5.2

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.7.3Latest
2026-04-11 · current release · diff ↗
0.7.2
2026-03-21 · diff ↗
0.7.1
2026-01-23 · diff ↗
0.7.0
2026-01-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.6.5
2023-12-02 · diff ↗
0.6.4
2023-10-13 · diff ↗
0.6.3
2023-06-15 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.6.2
2023-04-19 · diff ↗
0.6.1
2023-03-22 · diff ↗
0.6.0
2023-03-16 · diff ↗
0.5.2
2023-01-23 · diff ↗
0.5.1
2022-11-16 · diff ↗

Show 24 earlier events

0.5.0
2022-10-22 · diff ↗
0.4.2
2022-09-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.4.1
2022-04-13 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2022-03-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.8
2021-04-29 · diff ↗
0.3.7
2021-03-29 · diff ↗
0.3.6
2020-12-17 · diff ↗
0.3.5
2020-11-17 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2020-08-29 · diff ↗
0.3.3
2020-08-28 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2020-07-15 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2020-06-05 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2020-05-12 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.4
2020-03-10 · diff ↗
0.2.3
2020-02-20 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2020-01-24 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2019-12-17 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2019-07-06 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
2018-11-29
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-11-29
Total releases: 31 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 1.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("vctrs")

Format

Vaughan, D., Posit Software, PBC, data.table team, Henry, L., & Wickham, H. (2026). vctrs: Vector Helpers (Version 0.7.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vctrs

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for vctrs version 0.7.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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