R Observatory: Metrics for Rapp version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rapp

0.4.1

Easily Build Command Line Applications

0packages dependsuggested by 1

4.7Kdownloads / year

80.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tomasz KalinowskiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Run simple 'R' scripts as command line applications, with automatic robust and convenient support for command line arguments. This package provides 'Rapp', an alternative 'R' front-end similar to 'Rscript', that enables this.

Changes in 0.4.1

Updated snapshot tests for yaml12 0.2.0's revised output formatting. This does not change Rapp's behavior.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("Rapp", 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("r-lib/Rapp")

Development version from r-lib/Rapp. 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-rapp

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-Rapp

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-Rapp

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: 1.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-12

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-04
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.1

READMEYes · 1,811 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 50%1 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 73%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,040 · ~13/day · ~395/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

42930 days

1.3K90 days

4.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on128 r2u9 autocran83 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/rapp ↗Organization: r-lib

147Stars

2Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

75Commits

1Commit identities

75 commits · Last activity 2026-08-24 · +1.4% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.4.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.4.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 68
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-22 · 612026-09-23 · 147

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/r-lib/rapp 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

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirRStudio project

Git structural (1)

blame-ignore revs

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Rapp adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 1.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: yaml12 1.6 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

yaml12

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

btw

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Tomasz Kalinowski

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.4.1Latest
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2026-08-24 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2026-06-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0
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2025-12-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
install_pkg_cli_apps, uninstall_pkg_cli_apps
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.0
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2024-07-15 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0
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2023-03-20
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-03-20
Total releases: 5 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rapp")

Format

Kalinowski, T. (2026). Rapp: Easily Build Command Line Applications (Version 0.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Rapp

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 Rapp version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-17, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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