R Observatory: Metrics for this.path version 2.8.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

this.path

2.8.0Package record

Get Executing Script's Path

3packages dependsuggested by 2

40.1Kdownloads / year

33.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Iris SimmonsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Determine the path of the executing script. Compatible with several popular GUIs: 'Rgui', 'RStudio', 'Positron', 'VSCode', 'Jupyter', 'Emacs', and 'Rscript' (shell). Compatible with several functions and packages: 'source()', 'sys.source()', 'debugSource()' in 'RStudio', 'compiler::loadcmp()', 'utils::Sweave()', 'box::use()', 'knitr::knit()', 'plumber::plumb()', 'shiny::runApp()', 'package:targets', and 'testthat::source_file()'.

Install

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

install.packages("this.path", 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("ArcadeAntics/this.path")

Development version from ArcadeAntics/this.path. 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-this.path

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-this.path

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-this.path

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: 2.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-16
WARNING9 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-03-21
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-17
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.8.0

READMEYes · 1,446 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 31 (12 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 79%19 run in a plain check · 1 never run · 4 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 85%
Documented parameters: 52%
Return-value docs: 85%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

40.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,770 · ~110/day · ~3.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4K30 days

11.6K90 days

40.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on858 r2u5 autocran8K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

arcadeantics/this.path ↗Account: ArcadeAntics

69Stars

2Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

702Commits

3Commit identities

rpackage

702 commits · Last activity 2026-10-18 · +1.5% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.8.0.68, ahead of CRAN 2.8.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

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: 2

Stars over time

2025-10-15 · 602026-10-09 · 69

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/arcadeantics/this.path on 2026-10-18.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing this.path adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.15

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

utilsjsonlite microbenchmark rprojroot

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rfriend apmx neptune

Suggests, most downloaded first

sdbuildR lisat

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Iris Simmons

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.3.0

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Andrew Simmons

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 1.2.0

Releases (32)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.8.0Latest
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2026-04-10 · current release · diff ↗
2.7.1
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2025-11-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.7.0
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2025-04-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
set.sys.path.jupyter, fileArgs
2.6.0
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2024-12-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
reset.this.proj, set.this.path.jupyter, inside.source, set.this.path, unset.this.path

added 1 export
make_fix_funs
2.5.0
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2024-06-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
as.rel.path, as.relative.path, local.path, Sys.path, Sys.dir

added 1 export
print.connection
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.4.0
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2024-02-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
list.files, file.copy, Sys.setFileTime, unlink, ...elt, with_script_path, make_fix_file, thisPathNotFoundError, sys.whiches
2.3.1
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2023-12-11 · diff ↗
2.3.0
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2023-12-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
normalized.shFILE, this.path2, this.dir2, this.dir3

added 1 export
file.size
2.2.0
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2023-10-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
withAutoprint, site.file, init.file, set.jupyter.path, set.gui.path, thisPathNotExistsError, sys.srcref, set.sys.path.function, with_sys.path, with_site.file, with_init.file
2.1.0
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2023-09-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 26 exports
.mapply, parse, anyNA, anyNA.data.frame, anyNA.numeric_version, anyNA.POSIXlt, isNamespaceLoaded, dir.exists, lengths, file.mtime, file.info, strrep, startsWith, endsWith, ...length, isTRUE, isFALSE, errorCondition, str2expression, str2lang, deparse1, bquote, gettext, gettextf, tryCatch3, last.condition
2.0.0
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2023-08-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 35 exports
sys.LINENO, env.LINENO, src.LINENO, LINE, path.functions, rel2sys.dir, rel2sys.proj, rel2env.dir, rel2env.proj, rel2src.dir, rel2src.proj, rel2proj, sys.proj, env.proj, src.proj, reset.proj, set.sys.path.jupyter, sys.path, sys.dir, env.path, env.dir, src.path, src.dir, sys.here, env.here, src.here, try.sys.path, try.env.path, try.src.path, FILE and 5 more
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.4.0
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2023-04-18 · diff ↗

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1.3.0
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2023-04-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
check.proj, path.split, path.split.1, path.unsplit, rel2here, reset.this.proj, set.this.path.jupyter, try.shFILE, try.this.path, local.path, unset.this.path
1.2.0
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2023-01-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
Sys.putenv, set.this.path
1.1.0
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2022-12-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 15 exports
relpath, progArgs, splitext, removeext, ext, ext<-, is.main, OS.type, LINENO, initwd, getinitwd, Sys.path, Sys.dir, wrap.source, inside.source
1.0.1
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2022-09-23 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2022-09-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
basename2, dirname2, path.join
0.11.0
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2022-09-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
asArgs, from.shell, fileArgs, withArgs, this.proj, tryCatch2
0.8.0
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2022-07-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 27 exports
ArgumentParser, Commands, Missing, commandPrompt, commandQuote, shEncode, dedent, delayedAssign2, file.open, list.files2, dir2, normalizeAgainst, path.contract, pseudoglobalenv, python, R, Rcmd, Rscript, Rterm, has.ext, scan2, format4scan, setReadWriteArgsMethod, writeArgs, readArgs, Args, withArgs
0.7.0
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2022-04-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.6.0
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2022-04-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
shFILE, normalized.shFILE
0.5.1
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2022-03-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
as.relative.path, as.rel.path
0.5.0
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2022-01-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 34 exports
ArgumentParser, Commands, Missing, check.path, check.dir, commandPrompt, commandQuote, shEncode, dedent, delayedAssign2, file.open, here, ici, list.files2, dir2, normalizeAgainst, path.contract, pseudoglobalenv, python, R, Rcmd, Rscript, Rterm, has.ext, scan2, format4scan, setReadWriteArgsMethod, writeArgs, readArgs, this.path2 and 4 more
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.4
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2021-03-21 · diff ↗
0.4.3
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2021-03-18 · diff ↗
0.4.2
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2021-03-17 · diff ↗
0.4.1
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2021-03-16 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2021-03-15 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2021-03-04 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2020-12-17 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2020-12-03 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2020-11-11
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-11
Total releases: 32 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.15
Download size: 372 KB

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Format

Simmons, I. (2026). this.path: Get Executing Script's Path (Version 2.8.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.this.path

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for this.path version 2.8.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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