R Observatory: Metrics for xml2 version 1.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

xml2

1.6.0

Parse XML

671packages depend

12.1Mdownloads / year

88.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsFirst published 2015-04-2026 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Bindings to 'libxml2' for working with XML data using a simple, consistent interface based on 'XPath' expressions. Also supports XML schema validation; for 'XSLT' transformations see the 'xslt' package.

Install

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

install.packages("xml2", 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/xml2")

Development version from r-lib/xml2. 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-xml2

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-xml2

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-xml2

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.65

88.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-08-06
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-27
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 16 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-24
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-24
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-14
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-11
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-10
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-04
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-30
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-28
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-24
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-22
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-20
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-16
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-30
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-29
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 252 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 96%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 55%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

12.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #80 · ~33.1K/day · ~1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

764.8K30 days

2.5M90 days

12.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on261.4K r2u170 autocran1.2M conda_forge128 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/xml2

223Stars

85Forks

59Open issues

5Open PRs

21Releases

874Commits

41Contributors

rxmllibxml2

874 commits · Last activity 2026-06-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-14 · 2202026-07-07 · 223

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/xml2 on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Show all practices

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (3)

Issue templatesCODEOWNERSSupport guide

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: copilot on 2026-06-02

copilotclaude

Most recent: claude on 2026-06-22

Evidence

copilot: on 2026-06-02 · evidence A, PR · sole bot-author seen
claude: on 2026-06-22 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (3)

climethodsrlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

covr curl httr knitr mockery rmarkdown testthat (>= 3.2.0)xslt

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

671direct

1,274indirect

and 624 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Jim Hester

Author · added in 1.2.1

Hadley Wickham

Author

Contributors (1)

R Foundation

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.3.6

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.3.6

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 1.3.5

James Hester

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.2.0

Package Timeline

26 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.6.0Latest
2026-06-22 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.5.2
2026-01-17 · diff ↗
1.5.1
2025-12-01 · diff ↗
1.5.0
2025-11-17 · diff ↗
1.4.1
2025-10-27 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2025-08-20 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.3.8
2025-03-14 · diff ↗
1.3.7
2025-02-28 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3.6
2023-12-04 · diff ↗
1.3.5
2023-07-06 · diff ↗
1.3.4
2023-04-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Show 23 earlier events

1.3.3
2021-11-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.3.2
2020-04-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.3.1
2020-04-09 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2020-04-01 · diff ↗
1.2.5
2020-03-11 · diff ↗
1.2.4
2020-03-10 · diff ↗
1.2.2
2019-08-09 · diff ↗
1.2.1
2019-07-29 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.2.0
2018-01-24 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.1.1
2017-01-24 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2017-01-07 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2016-12-05 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.2
2015-09-01 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2015-06-02 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2015-05-29
the non-cross-platform configure script (using bash extensions) was not corrected despite reminders
0.1.0
2015-04-20
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-04-20
Total releases: 26 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 151 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("xml2")

Format

Ooms, J., Posit Software, PBC, R Foundation, Hester, J., & Wickham, H. (2026). xml2: Parse XML (Version 1.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.xml2

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for xml2 version 1.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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