R Observatory: Metrics for autosync version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

autosync

0.2.0Package record

'Automerge' Sync Server and Client

0packages depend

1.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Charlie GaoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

A WebSocket-based implementation of the 'automerge-repo' synchronization protocol used by 'sync.automerge.org'. Acts as a sync server, enabling 'R' to serve as a synchronization hub for 'Automerge' clients in 'JavaScript', 'Rust', and other languages, and as a client for fetching, editing, and synchronizing documents hosted on remote servers.

Changes in 0.2.0

Updates the UI of sync_app() to use a shinyreact frontend.
Requires nanonext >= 1.10.3.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("autosync", 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("posit-dev/autosync")

Development version from posit-dev/autosync. 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-autosync

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-autosync

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-07-07

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 490 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 19 (7 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check (9 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,083 · ~3/day · ~96/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36330 days

96190 days

1.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on25 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

posit-dev/autosync ↗Organization: posit-dev

4Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

67Commits

1Commit identities

automerge-repocrdtsync-server

67 commits · Last activity 2026-09-23 · Default branch at 0.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Releases over time

2026-07-14 · 12026-09-24 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/posit-dev/autosync 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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-23 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-23

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-01-02
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing autosync adds 23 packages (16 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: automerge 6.5 MB, promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4

Imports (7)

automerge httr2 jose later nanonext promises secretbase

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

openssl shiny shinyreact 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 (2)

Charlie Gao

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.0Latest
record
2026-09-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
sync_app, sync_project
0.1.0
record
2026-07-06
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-06
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4
Download size: 494 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("autosync")

Format

Gao, C., & Posit Software, PBC. (2026). autosync: 'Automerge' Sync Server and Client (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.autosync

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 autosync version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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