R Observatory: Metrics for rt version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rt

1.1.0Package record

Interface to the 'Request Tracker' API

0packages depend

4.2Kdownloads / year

9.3%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bryce MecumCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a programmatic interface to the 'Request Tracker' (RT) HTTP API https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/REST. 'RT' is a popular ticket tracking system.

Install

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

install.packages("rt", 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("nceas/rt")

Development version from nceas/rt. 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-rt

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-rt

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-rt

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) rt_GET.Rd:13: Lost braces
    13 | code{\link[httr]{GET}} (\code{TRUE}) or not (\code{FALSE})}
       |     ^
checkRd: (-1) rt_POST.Rd:13: Lost braces
    13 | code{\link[httr]{POST}} (\code{TRUE}) or not (\code{FALSE})}
       |     ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMEYes · 410 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.1.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 40includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%21 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,068 · ~12/day · ~352/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32030 days

79990 days

4.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on64 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

nceas/rt ↗Organization: NCEAS

7Stars

4Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

289Commits

3Commit identities

rstatsrequest-trackerapi

289 commits · Last activity 2021-06-04

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 49
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nceas/rt 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

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2021-06-04 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rt adds 16 packages (12 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

httr stringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

askpass knitr rmarkdown testthat tibble

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)

Bryce Mecum

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2020)

Irene Steves

Contributor

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

Copyright holder

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
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
1.1.0Latest
record
2021-05-15 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
rt_ticket_history_entry
1.0.1
record
2020-12-17 · diff ↗
1.0.0
record
2020-04-27
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-27
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 46 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rt")

Format

Mecum, B., National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, & Steves, I. (2021). rt: Interface to the 'Request Tracker' API (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rt

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 rt version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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