R Observatory: Metrics for logger version 0.4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

logger

0.4.3Package record

A Lightweight, Modern and Flexible Logging Utility

55packages dependsuggested by 11

779.9Kdownloads / year

81.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gergely DarócziCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funders: Spare Cores and System1

Inspired by the the 'futile.logger' R package and 'logging' Python module, this utility provides a flexible and extensible way of formatting and delivering log messages with low overhead.

Changes in 0.4.3

Maintenance release:

Update log4r migration vignette to reflect their new API

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("logger", 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("daroczig/logger")

Development version from daroczig/logger. 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-logger

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-logger

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-logger

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: 2.7 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-12
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-05

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OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.3

READMEYes · 547 wordsVignettesYes · 7 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 62 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 76%26 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 60%
Help pages citing references: 3%

Vignettes (7)

How these are measured

Downloads

779.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #420 · ~2.1K/day · ~65K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

67.5K30 days

201.2K90 days

779.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on13.1K r2u4 autocran14.1K conda_forge247 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

daroczig/logger ↗Account: daroczig

325Stars

46Forks

15Open issues

7Open PRs

9Releases

828Commits

33Commit identities

828 commits · Last activity 2026-09-09 · +0.6% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.4.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.4.3 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 78
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-10-20 · 3102026-10-23 · 325

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/daroczig/logger on 2026-10-25.

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)

Issue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-09

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

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Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrLint workflow

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (23)

botor cli covr crayon devtools glue jsonlite knitr mirai ntfy panderparallelR.utils rmarkdown roxygen2 RPushbullet rsyslog shiny slackr syslognet telegram testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

55direct

52indirect

Imports 55

Suggested by 11

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 7 more dependents and 11 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Gergely Daróczi

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2019)

Hadley Wickham

Author · added in 0.4.0

Jonathan Carroll

Contributor · added in 0.4.2

Spare Cores

Funder · added in 0.4.1

System1

Funder

Releases (9)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.4.3Latest
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2026-08-24 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.2
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2026-05-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
appender_ntfy
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.1
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2025-09-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
formatter_cli, layout_gha, log_chunk_time, log_elapsed, log_elapsed_start
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.0
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2024-10-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
log_indices
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.0
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2024-03-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
OFF, appender_void, as.loglevel, delete_logger_index, formatter_glue_safe
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.2
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2021-10-19 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2021-07-06 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.0
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2021-03-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 24 exports
%except%, appender_async, appender_kinesis, appender_stderr, appender_stdout, appender_syslog, appender_syslognet, appender_telegram, deparse_to_one_line, fail_on_missing_package, formatter_json, formatter_pander, layout_blank, layout_json_parser, layout_syslognet, log_errors, log_failure, log_messages, log_namespaces, log_separator, log_shiny_input_changes, log_tictoc, log_warnings, log_with_separator
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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0.1
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2019-01-02
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-01-02
Total releases: 9 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from AGPL-3 in 0.4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 1.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("logger")

Format

Daróczi, G., Spare Cores, System1, Carroll, J., & Wickham, H. (2026). logger: A Lightweight, Modern and Flexible Logging Utility (Version 0.4.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.logger

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 logger version 0.4.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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