R Observatory: Metrics for searcher version 0.0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

searcher

0.0.7Package record

Query Search Interfaces

2packages depend

4.8Kdownloads / year

93.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by James BalamutaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a search interface to look up terms on 'Google', 'Bing', 'DuckDuckGo', 'Startpage', 'Ecosia', 'rseek', 'Twitter', 'StackOverflow', 'RStudio Community', 'GitHub', and 'BitBucket'. Upon searching, a browser window will open with the aforementioned search results.

Changes in 0.0.7

Features

Added search portals:
search_grep(): Searches on grep.app. (#35, #37)
search_qwant(): Searches on Qwant. (#36)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("searcher", 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("coatless-rpkg/searcher")

Development version from coatless-rpkg/searcher. 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-searcher

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-searcher

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-searcher

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: 56 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.7

READMEYes · 748 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.0.7Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Search Patterns HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,957 · ~13/day · ~396/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27630 days

84690 days

4.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on76 r2u6 autocran950 conda_forge105 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

coatless-rpkg/searcher ↗Organization: coatless-rpkg

81Stars

5Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

76Commits

2Commit identities

rerror-handlingerror-messagessearch-enginesearch-portalsautomatic

76 commits · Last activity 2025-05-27 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.0, ahead of CRAN 0.0.7 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 66
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-15 · 812026-10-05 · 81

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/coatless-rpkg/searcher on 2026-10-21.

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 (2)

PR template (inherited from coatless-rpkg)

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, thanks.dev

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-05-27 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-05-27

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat covr knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

SemNetCleaner errorist

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

James Balamuta

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.2 (2018)

Alex Rossell Hayes

Contributor · added in 0.0.6

Releases (6)

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
0.0.7Latest
record
2024-02-04 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
search_grep, search_qwant
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.6
record
2021-07-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
search_ecosia, search_rseek
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.0.5
record
2020-02-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
search_twitter
0.0.4
record
2019-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
search_rscom, search_rstudio_community, search_sp, search_startpage
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.0.3
record
2018-07-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
search_ixquick
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.0.2
record
2018-01-16
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-01-16
Total releases: 6 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 22 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("searcher")

Format

Balamuta, J., & Hayes, A. R. (2024). searcher: Query Search Interfaces (Version 0.0.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.searcher

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for searcher version 0.0.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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