R Observatory: Metrics for whirl version 0.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

whirl

0.3.3Package record

Log Execution of Scripts

0packages dependsuggested by 3

3Kdownloads / year

31.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Aksel ThomsenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Logging of scripts suitable for clinical trials using 'Quarto' to create nice human readable logs. 'whirl' enables execution of scripts in batch, while simultaneously creating logs for the execution of each script, and providing an overview summary log of the entire batch execution.

Changes in 0.3.3

Added skip_after option to skip remaining steps after an error or warning (#202).
Added support for named list syntax to specify step names in run() (#201).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("whirl", 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("novonordisk-opensource/whirl")

Development version from novonordisk-opensource/whirl. 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-whirl

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-whirl

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-whirl

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: 10.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.3

READMEYes · 470 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 8 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 40%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 40%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Execute Scripts HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,406 · ~8/day · ~252/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39230 days

94190 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on84 r2u3 autocran683 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

novonordisk-opensource/whirl ↗Organization: NovoNordisk-OpenSource

21Stars

3Forks

18Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

254Commits

23Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 254 commits · Last activity 2026-10-12 · +10.5% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 64
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-08-05 · 172026-10-14 · 21

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/novonordisk-opensource/whirl on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (3)

Issue templatesPR templateCODEOWNERS

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-12

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-12

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing whirl adds 67 packages (35 with compiled code, 45 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (20)

callr cli dplyr jsonlite kableExtra knitr purrr quarto R6 renv reticulate rlang sessioninfo stringr tibble unglueutilswithr yaml zephyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

ggplot2 rstudioapi testthat usethis

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

connector connector.databricks connector.sharepoint

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Aksel Thomsen

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2025)

Lovemore Gakava

Author

Cervan Girard

Author

Steffen Falgreen Larsen

Author

Oliver Lundsgaard

Author · added in 0.3.1

Skander Mulder

Author · added in 0.3.0

Vladimir Obucina

Author

Michael Svingel

Author · added in 0.3.0

Kristian Troejelsgaard

Author

Novo Nordisk A/S

Copyright holder

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.3.3Latest
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2026-10-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.2
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2026-01-21 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2025-08-25 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2025-07-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
use_biocompute, write_biocompute
0.2.0
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2025-04-15
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-04-15
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 2.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("whirl")

Format

Thomsen, A., Novo Nordisk A/S, Gakava, L., Girard, C., Larsen, S. F., Lundsgaard, O., Mulder, S., Obucina, V., Svingel, M., & Troejelsgaard, K. (2026). whirl: Log Execution of Scripts (Version 0.3.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.whirl

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 whirl version 0.3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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