R Observatory: Metrics for cli version 3.6.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cli

3.6.6Package record

Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces

1,807packages dependsuggested by 101

25.3Mdownloads / year

75.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

A suite of tools to build attractive command line interfaces ('CLIs'), from semantic elements: headings, lists, alerts, paragraphs, etc. Supports custom themes via a 'CSS'-like language. It also contains a number of lower level 'CLI' elements: rules, boxes, trees, and 'Unicode' symbols with 'ASCII' alternatives. It support ANSI colors and text styles as well.

Changes in 3.6.6

New {.num} and {.bytes} inline styles to format numbers and bytes (@m-muecke, #644, #588, #643).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("cli", 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/cli")

Development version from r-lib/cli. 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-cli

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-cli

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-cli

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: 5.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-15
OK13 OK2026-09-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-18
OK13 OK2026-09-12

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-20
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-11
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-10
OK13 OK2026-07-03
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-24
OK13 OK2026-06-15
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-13
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-06
OK13 OK2026-05-24
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-05-14
OK13 OK2026-05-11
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-10
OK13 OK2026-05-08
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-05-04
OK13 OK2026-04-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-28
OK14 OK2026-04-24
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-16
WARNING8 OK, 6 WARNING2026-03-31
ERROR9 OK, 1 NOTE, 3 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
WARNING9 OK, 2 NOTE, 3 WARNING2026-03-25
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-03-22
WARNING9 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-03-21
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-17
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.6.6

READMEYes · 348 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.6.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 121 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 98%51 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 48%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 69%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

25.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2 · ~69.4K/day · ~2.1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.1M30 days

6.4M90 days

25.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on343.1K r2u211 autocran2.5M conda_forge25.3K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/cli ↗Organization: r-lib

728Stars

94Forks

99Open issues

18Open PRs

27Releases

1,763Commits

61Commit identities

rcli

1,763 commits · Last activity 2026-10-14 · +0.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.6.6.9000, ahead of CRAN 3.6.6 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 16
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-10-06 · 6782026-10-16 · 728

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/cli 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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-01

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-01
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (20)

callr covr crayon digest gluegrDeviceshtmltools htmlwidgets knitrmethodsprocessx ps (>= 1.3.4.9000)rlang rmarkdown rprojroot rstudioapi testthat tibble whoami withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1,807direct

11,631indirect

Depends 4 · Imports 1,801 · LinkingTo 15

Suggested by 101

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 1,759 more dependents and 101 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2017)

Salim Brüggemann

Contributor · added in 3.6.2

Kirill Müller

Contributor

Hadley Wickham

Contributor

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 3.6.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 2.3.0 to 1.0.2

Releases (29)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.6.6Latest
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2026-04-09 · current release · diff ↗
3.6.5
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2025-04-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
3.6.4
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2025-02-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
hash_file_xxhash, hash_file_xxhash64, hash_obj_xxhash, hash_obj_xxhash64, hash_raw_xxhash, hash_raw_xxhash64, hash_xxhash, hash_xxhash64
3.6.3
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2024-06-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.6.2
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2023-12-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ansi_string
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
3.6.1
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2023-03-23 · diff ↗
3.6.0
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2023-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
hash_file_sha1, hash_obj_sha1, hash_raw_sha1, hash_sha1
3.5.0
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2022-12-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
ansi_collapse, has_keypress_support, hash_file_md5, keypress, pretty_print_code
3.4.1
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2022-09-23 · diff ↗
3.4.0
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2022-09-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
ansi_grep, ansi_grepl, ansi_hyperlink_types, ansi_nzchar, cli_fmt, vt_output
3.3.0
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2022-04-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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3.2.0
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2022-02-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
hash_file_sha256, hash_obj_animal, hash_obj_emoji, hash_obj_md5, hash_obj_sha256, hash_raw_animal, hash_raw_emoji, hash_raw_md5, hash_raw_sha256, hash_sha256, ruler
3.1.1
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2022-01-20 · diff ↗
3.1.0
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2021-10-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 34 exports
ansi_html, ansi_html_style, ansi_palette_show, ansi_palettes, ansi_simplify, bg_br_black, bg_br_blue, bg_br_cyan, bg_br_green, bg_br_magenta, bg_br_red, bg_br_white, bg_br_yellow, cli_bullets_raw, code_highlight, code_theme_list, col_br_black, col_br_blue, col_br_cyan, col_br_green, col_br_magenta, col_br_red, col_br_white, col_br_yellow, diff_chr, diff_str, format_bullets_raw, hash_animal, hash_emoji, hash_md5 and 4 more
3.0.1
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2021-07-17 · diff ↗
3.0.0
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2021-06-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 42 exports
__cli_update_due, ccli_tick_reset, cli_abort, cli_inform, cli_progress_along, cli_progress_bar, cli_progress_builtin_handlers, cli_progress_cleanup, cli_progress_demo, cli_progress_done, cli_progress_message, cli_progress_num, cli_progress_output, cli_progress_step, cli_progress_styles, cli_progress_update, cli_tick_reset, cli_warn, format_inline, pb_bar, pb_current, pb_current_bytes, pb_elapsed, pb_elapsed_clock, pb_elapsed_raw, pb_eta, pb_eta_raw, pb_eta_str, pb_extra, pb_id and 12 more
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.5.0
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2021-04-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
cli_memo

added 20 exports
ansi_chartr, ansi_tolower, ansi_toupper, bg_none, cli_bullets, col_none, format_error, format_message, format_warning, style_no_bg_color, style_no_blurred, style_no_bold, style_no_color, style_no_dim, style_no_hidden, style_no_inverse, style_no_italic, style_no_strikethrough, style_no_underline, test_that_cli
2.4.0
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2021-04-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
cli, cli_memo, spark_bar, spark_line
2.3.1
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2021-02-23 · diff ↗
2.3.0
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2021-01-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
ansi_columns, ansi_strtrim, ansi_strwrap, ansi_trimws, num_ansi_colors
2.2.0
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2020-11-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
ansi_align, ansi_has_any, ansi_has_hyperlink_support, ansi_nchar, ansi_regex, ansi_strip, ansi_strsplit, ansi_substr, ansi_substring, style_hyperlink
2.1.0
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2020-10-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
cli_vec, pluralize
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.0.2
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2020-02-28 · diff ↗
2.0.1
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2020-01-09 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2019-12-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 38 exports
builtin_theme, cli_alert, cli_alert_danger, cli_alert_info, cli_alert_success, cli_alert_warning, cli_blockquote, cli_code, cli_div, cli_dl, cli_end, cli_format, cli_format_method, cli_h1, cli_h2, cli_h3, cli_li, cli_list_themes, cli_ol, cli_output_connection, cli_par, cli_process_done, cli_process_failed, cli_process_start, cli_rule, cli_status, cli_status_clear, cli_status_update, cli_text, cli_ul and 8 more
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1.0
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2019-03-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 35 exports
ansi_hide_cursor, ansi_show_cursor, ansi_with_hidden_cursor, bg_black, bg_blue, bg_cyan, bg_green, bg_magenta, bg_red, bg_white, bg_yellow, col_black, col_blue, col_cyan, col_green, col_grey, col_magenta, col_red, col_silver, col_white, col_yellow, combine_ansi_styles, is_ansi_tty, is_dynamic_tty, make_ansi_style, make_spinner, style_blurred, style_bold, style_dim, style_hidden and 5 more
1.0.2
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2023-03-23 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2018-09-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
cli_sitrep, is_utf8_output
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.0
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2017-11-05
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-05
Total releases: 29 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 629 KB

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Csárdi, G., Posit Software, PBC, Brüggemann, S., Müller, K., & Wickham, H. (2026). cli: Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces (Version 3.6.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cli

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cli version 3.6.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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