R Observatory: Metrics for workspace version 0.1.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

workspace

0.1.6Package record

Manage Collections of Datasets and Objects

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

85.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Eli DanielsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: ArData

Create, store, read and manage structured collections of datasets and other objects using a 'workspace', then bundle it into a compressed archive. Using open and interoperable formats makes it possible to exchange bundled data from 'R' to other languages such as 'Python' or 'Julia'. Multiple formats are supported 'Parquet', 'JSON', 'yaml', spatial data and raster data are supported.

Changes in 0.1.6

Features

In store_dataset() method for sf objects, now preserves agr and sf_column

and CRS when storing spatial sf datasets.

Fixes

Column names with spaces now preserved when reading sf datasets from workspace.

Tests

Improve round-trip test coverage to ensure what is stored in a workspace is

the same as what is read.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("workspace", 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("ardata-fr/workspace")

Development version from ardata-fr/workspace. 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-workspace

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-workspace

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-workspace

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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-15
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-08
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.6

READMEYes · 298 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 20includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%19 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,811 · ~6/day · ~197/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23430 days

67290 days

2.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on303 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ardata-fr/workspace ↗Organization: ardata-fr

3Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

38Commits

2Commit identities

38 commits · Last activity 2026-09-23 · Default branch at 0.1.8, ahead of CRAN 0.1.6 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

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

Commits over time

2026-07-19 · 372026-09-27 · 38

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ardata-fr/workspace on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing workspace adds 24 packages (16 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, arrow 4.2 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (10)

arrow cli dplyr rlang stringi tibbletoolsutilsyaml zip

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

sf terra testthat jsonlite

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Eli Daniels

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.5 (2025)

David Gohel

Author

ArData

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-09-29 · current release · diff ↗
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2025-09-11
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-09-11
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 38 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("workspace")

Format

Daniels, E., ArData, & Gohel, D. (2025). workspace: Manage Collections of Datasets and Objects (Version 0.1.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.workspace

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 workspace version 0.1.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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