R Observatory: Metrics for waldo version 0.6.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

waldo

0.6.2Package record

Find Differences Between R Objects

7packages dependsuggested by 58

8.9Mdownloads / year

94.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Compare complex R objects and reveal the key differences. Designed particularly for use in testing packages where being able to quickly isolate key differences makes understanding test failures much easier.

Changes in 0.6.2

compare() now goes into more details if you're comparing an S3 object with a base object of the same type (#218).
compare() ignores read-only S7 properties, only comparing the underlying data stored in attributes (#219).
compare() can compare weakrefs.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("waldo", 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/waldo")

Development version from r-lib/waldo. 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-waldo

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-waldo

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-waldo

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-16
OK13 OK2026-08-05
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-08

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-05
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-18
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.2

READMEYes · 332 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 3 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 75%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

8.9M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #109 · ~24.3K/day · ~739.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

508.4K30 days

1.8M90 days

8.9M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on137.6K r2u96 autocran360.4K conda_forge5.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/waldo ↗Organization: r-lib

301Stars

21Forks

10Open issues

5Open PRs

16Releases

322Commits

15Commit identities

rtestingdiff

322 commits · Last activity 2025-07-11 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.6.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.6.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 18
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-16 · 2962026-08-30 · 301

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/waldo on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-07-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-07-11

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing waldo adds 5 packages (4 with compiled code, 2.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB, diffobj 462 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (5)

cli diffobj gluemethodsrlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

bit64 R6 S7 testthat withr xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

327indirect

Imports 7

Suggested by 58

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

testthat vcr strollur fcall typed butterfly snapr

Suggests, most downloaded first

and 17 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.5.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.5.1

Releases (17)

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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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2023-11-02 · diff ↗
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2023-05-09 · diff ↗
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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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2022-03-16 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2021-09-14 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2021-08-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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0.2.5
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2021-03-08 · diff ↗
0.2.4
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2021-02-11 · diff ↗
0.2.3
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2020-11-09 · diff ↗
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2020-10-15 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2020-10-08 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2020-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
compare_proxy
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.0
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2020-04-16
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-16
Total releases: 17 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 45 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("waldo")

Format

Wickham, H., & Posit Software, PBC. (2025). waldo: Find Differences Between R Objects (Version 0.6.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.waldo

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for waldo version 0.6.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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