R Observatory: Metrics for xfun version 0.62

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

xfun

0.62Package record

Supporting Functions for Packages Maintained by 'Yihui Xie'

61packages dependsuggested by 36

15.8Mdownloads / year

54.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Miscellaneous functions commonly used in other packages maintained by 'Yihui Xie'.

Install

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

install.packages("xfun", 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("yihui/xfun")

Development version from yihui/xfun. 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-xfun

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-xfun

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-xfun

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: 3.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-20
OK13 OK2026-08-12
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-09
OK13 OK2026-08-04

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-20
OK13 OK2026-06-11
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-09
OK13 OK2026-05-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-06
OK14 OK2026-04-24
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-20
OK14 OK2026-03-31
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-18
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-17
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.62

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · does not mention 0.62Citation fileNo

Help pages: 114 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 96%87 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 81%
Help pages citing references: 5%

Vignettes (1)

An Introduction to xfun

How these are measured

Downloads

15.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #33 · ~43.2K/day · ~1.3M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3M30 days

3.7M90 days

15.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on388.8K r2u193 autocran1.5M conda_forge22.3K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

yihui/xfun ↗Account: yihui

156Stars

32Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

62Releases

1,036Commits

24Commit identities

rr-packagecran

1,036 commits · Last activity 2026-10-19 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.62.1, ahead of CRAN 0.62 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 1552026-09-14 · 156

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/yihui/xfun on 2026-10-18.

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 (5)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesFunding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-16

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-11-03
Seen in the repository: .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 8 by its own account · at least 7 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-20
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 45 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.619 commits · May to Jul 2026
Claude Opus 4.819 commits · Jul to Oct 2026
Claude Sonnet 4.66 commits · Jun to Oct 2026
Claude Sonnet 5.51 commit · Oct 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing xfun adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (3)

grDevicesstatstools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (18)

testitparallelcodetoolsmethodsrstudioapi tinytex (>= 0.30)mime litedown knitr remotes pak curl xml2 jsonlite magick yaml data.table qs2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

61direct

3,488indirect

Imports 61

Suggested by 36

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 13 more dependents and 36 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Yihui Xie

https://yihui.org

Salim Brüggemann

Contributor · added in 0.10

Christophe Dervieux

Contributor · added in 0.22

Daijiang Li

Contributor · added in 0.3

Xianying Tan

Contributor · added in 0.5

Wush Wu

Contributor · added in 0.15

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Posit Software, PBC

no longer listed · 0.39 to 0.47

Releases (62)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.62Latest
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2026-10-16 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
json_reviver, json_unpack, radix_group, radix_id
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listed once in CRAN's queue
Seen in one reading of CRAN's incoming queue, at 2026-10-16 02:28 UTC, so it stayed less than the time between readings.
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2026-09-16 · diff ↗
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2026-07-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
browser_dom
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2026-06-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
post_release
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2026-06-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
random_port, serve_dir, stop_app
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2026-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
js, tab_content
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2026-01-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
attr
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2025-12-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
browser_print
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2025-10-30 · diff ↗
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2025-08-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2025-04-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
attr2, rand_unit, url_destination
0.51
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2025-01-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
isFALSE

added 9 exports
find_globals, find_locals, join_words, pkg_bib, str_wrap, tabset, taml_file, taml_load, taml_save
0.49
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2024-10-31 · diff ↗

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0.48
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2024-10-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
file_rename, html_escape, html_tag, html_value, html_view, mime_type
0.47
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2024-08-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
lazy_load, lazy_save
0.46
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2024-07-18 · diff ↗
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2024-06-17 · diff ↗
0.44
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2024-05-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
cache_exec, fenced_div, md5, md_table, new_app, new_record, record_print
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2024-03-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
fenced_block, make_fence, upload_imgur
0.42
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2024-02-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
csv_options, decimal_dot, divide_chunk, record
0.41
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2023-11-01 · diff ↗
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2023-08-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.39
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2023-04-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
env_option, strip_html
0.38
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2023-03-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
download_cache, yaml_body, yaml_load
0.37
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2023-02-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
is_arm64
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2022-12-21 · diff ↗
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2022-11-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
stringsAsStrings
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2022-10-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
strings_please

added 1 export
alnum_id
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2022-09-13 · diff ↗
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2022-08-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
shrink_images, tinify_dir
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2022-05-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.30
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2022-03-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
is_blank
0.29
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2021-12-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
existing_files, github_api, read_all, rest_api, rest_api_raw, system3
0.28
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2021-11-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
try_error, url_accessible
0.27
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2021-10-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
append_unique, append_utf8, base_pkgs, crandalf_check, crandalf_results
0.26
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2021-09-14 · diff ↗
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2021-08-06 · diff ↗
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2021-06-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
broken_packages
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.23
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2021-05-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
format_bytes, news2md, submit_cran, tinify
0.22
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2021-03-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
retry, sort_file
0.21
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2021-02-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
exit_call, pkg_available, read_bin, set_envvar
0.20
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2021-01-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
dir_create, mark_dirs, msg_cat
0.19
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2020-10-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 13 exports
bg_process, check_old_package, check_package_name, del_empty_dir, dir_exists, file_exists, is_CRAN_incoming, is_R_CMD_check, is_abs_path, is_rel_path, is_sub_path, is_web_path, proc_kill
0.18
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2020-09-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
bump_version, do_once, from_root, github_releases, grep_sub, magic_path, process_file, proj_root, relative_path, root_rules, url_filename, valid_syntax
0.17
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2020-09-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
split_source
0.16
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2020-07-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
base64_decode
0.15
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2020-06-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
base64_encode, base64_uri, tree
0.14
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2020-05-20 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.13
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2020-04-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
Rscript_call, cache_rds
0.12
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2020-01-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
split_lines
0.11
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2019-11-12 · diff ↗
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2019-10-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
as_strict_list
0.9
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2019-08-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
rename_seq
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2019-06-25 · diff ↗
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2019-05-14 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-04-02 · diff ↗
0.5
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2019-02-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
install_github, stringsAsStrings, strings_please, upload_ftp, upload_win_builder
0.4
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2018-10-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
embed_dir, embed_file, embed_files
0.3
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2018-07-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
download_file, is_ascii, n2w, numbers_to_words
0.2
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2018-06-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 15 exports
Rcmd, Rscript, compare_Rcheck, file_string, gsub_dir, gsub_ext, gsub_file, gsub_files, install_dir, prose_index, protect_math, raw_string, rev_check, rstudio_type, session_info
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1
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2018-01-22
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 14 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2018-01-22
Total releases: 62 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 224 KB

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Format

Xie, Y., Brüggemann, S., Dervieux, C., Li, D., Tan, X., & Wu, W. (2026). xfun: Supporting Functions for Packages Maintained by 'Yihui Xie' (Version 0.62) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.xfun

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for xfun version 0.62 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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