R Observatory: Metrics for when version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

when

1.0.0Package record

Definition of Date and Time Dimension Tables

1packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

87.9%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jose SamosCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

In Multidimensional Systems the When dimension allows us to express when the analysed facts have occurred. The purpose of this package is to provide support for implementing this dimension in the form of date and time tables for Relational On-Line Analytical Processing star database systems.

Changes in 1.0.0

Initial CRAN submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("when", 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("josesamos/when")

Development version from josesamos/when. 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-when

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-when

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-when

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘define_characteristics.Rd’ ‘define_instances.Rd’ ‘export.R’
    ‘generate_table.Rd’ ‘get_attribute_definition_function.Rd’
    ‘get_day_part.Rd’ ‘get_level_attribute_names.Rd’ ‘get_level_names.Rd’
    ‘get_table.Rd’ ‘get_table_attribute_names.Rd’ ‘get_table_csv.Rd’
    ‘get_table_rdb.Rd’ ‘get_table_xlsx.Rd’ ‘select_date_levels.Rd’
    ‘select_day_level.Rd’ ‘select_month_level.Rd’
    ‘select_quarter_level.Rd’ ‘select_semester_level.Rd’
    ‘select_time_level.Rd’ ‘select_week_level.Rd’ ‘select_year_level.Rd’
    ‘set_attribute_definition_function.Rd’ ‘set_day_part.Rd’
    ‘set_table_attribute_names.Rd’ ‘week.R’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'define_characteristics.Rd' 'define_instances.Rd' 'export.R'
    'generate_table.Rd' 'get_attribute_definition_function.Rd'
    'get_day_part.Rd' 'get_level_attribute_names.Rd' 'get_level_names.Rd'
    'get_table.Rd' 'get_table_attribute_names.Rd' 'get_table_csv.Rd'
    'get_table_rdb.Rd' 'get_table_xlsx.Rd' 'select_date_levels.Rd'
    'select_day_level.Rd' 'select_month_level.Rd'
    'select_quarter_level.Rd' 'select_semester_level.Rd'
    'select_time_level.Rd' 'select_week_level.Rd' 'select_year_level.Rd'
    'set_attribute_definition_function.Rd' 'set_day_part.Rd'
    'set_table_attribute_names.Rd' 'week.R'

r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘export.R’ ‘week.R’

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-04-06
ERROR3 OK, 10 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 788 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 65 (38 internal)
Examples that run: 96%24 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Generating the When Dimension based on date and time tables HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,460 · ~7/day · ~203/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28930 days

69890 days

2.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

josesamos/when ↗Account: josesamos

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

72Commits

1Commit identities

72 commits · Last activity 2024-01-09 · Default branch at 1.0.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-08-06 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/josesamos/when 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-01-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-01-09

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing when adds 33 packages (18 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, xlsxjars 9.8 MB, dm 2.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (10)

DBI dm dplyr hms lubridate rlang snakecase tibbleutilsxlsx

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

dbplyr DiagrammeR DiagrammeRsvg knitr pander rmarkdown RSQLite testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rolap

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Jose Samos

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2024)

Universidad de Granada

Copyright holder

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.0Latest
record
2024-01-09 · current release
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-01-09
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 246 KB / 2 files
Download size: 272 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("when")

Format

Samos, J., & Universidad de Granada. (2024). when: Definition of Date and Time Dimension Tables (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.when

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 when version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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