R Observatory: Metrics for maketools version 1.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

maketools

1.3.2Package record

Exploring and Testing the Toolchain and System Libraries

0packages depend

7.2Kdownloads / year

56.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Helper functions that interface with the system utilities to learn about the local build environment. Lets you explore 'make' rules to test the local configuration, or query 'pkg-config' to find compiler flags and libs needed for building packages with external dependencies. Also contains tools to analyze which libraries that a installed R package linked to by inspecting output from 'ldd' in combination with information from your distribution package manager, e.g. 'rpm' or 'dpkg'.

Install

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

install.packages("maketools", 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("jeroen/maketools")

Development version from jeroen/maketools. 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-maketools

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-maketools

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-maketools

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: 1.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-12
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-05
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.2

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Automatically determine run-time dependencies for R packages on Linux HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

7.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,035 · ~20/day · ~598/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48130 days

1.2K90 days

7.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on73 r2u17 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jeroen/maketools ↗Account: jeroen

14Stars

2Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

210Commits

1Commit identities

210 commits · Last activity 2025-01-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-09-07 · 142026-07-07 · 14

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jeroen/maketools 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

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing maketools adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 19 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sys 19 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

sys

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

curl knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Releases (9)

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
1.3.2Latest
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2025-01-25 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3.0
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removed 3 exports
rtools_find, rtools_install, rtools_registry_info
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2023-03-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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added 1 export
find_logo
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-09-16 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2020-09-08 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2020-08-05
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-08-05
Total releases: 9 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 225 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("maketools")

Format

Ooms, J. (2025). maketools: Exploring and Testing the Toolchain and System Libraries (Version 1.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.maketools

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for maketools version 1.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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