R Observatory: Metrics for xopen version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

xopen

1.0.1Package record

Open System Files, 'URLs', Anything

1packages dependsuggested by 2

2Mdownloads / year

41.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Cross platform solution to open files, directories or 'URLs' with their associated programs.

Changes in 1.0.1

No changes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/xopen. 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-xopen

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-xopen

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-xopen

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: 49 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 81 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 3 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #291 · ~5.5K/day · ~166.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

115.9K30 days

390.7K90 days

2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on107.2K r2u134 autocran219.5K conda_forge321 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/xopen ↗Organization: r-lib

34Stars

3Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

46Commits

2Commit identities

46 commits · Last activity 2025-10-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
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

2025-08-18 · 332026-07-07 · 34

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/r-lib/xopen 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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-04-27

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirVS Code

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing xopen adds 3 packages (2 with compiled code, 422 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: processx 191 KB, ps 168 KB, R6 63 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1

Imports (1)

processx

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

ps testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

81indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rcmdcheck

Suggests, most downloaded first

mark iemisctext

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Author

Author

Author

Author

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.0.1

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.1Latest
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2024-04-25 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.0
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2018-09-17
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-09-17
Total releases: 2 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Download size: 12 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("xopen")

Format

Csárdi, G., Posit Software, PBC, Boudra, F., Dieter, R., Krammer, K., & White, J. (2024). xopen: Open System Files, 'URLs', Anything (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.xopen

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 xopen version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-17, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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