R Observatory: Metrics for clock version 0.7.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

clock

0.7.4Package record

Date-Time Types and Tools

23packages dependsuggested by 6

1.8Mdownloads / year

74.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Davis VaughanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Provides a comprehensive library for date-time manipulations using a new family of orthogonal date-time classes (durations, time points, zoned-times, and calendars) that partition responsibilities so that the complexities of time zones are only considered when they are really needed. Capabilities include: date-time parsing, formatting, arithmetic, extraction and updating of components, and rounding.

Changes in 0.7.4

Avoid non-API SET_ATTRIB().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/clock. 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-clock

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-clock

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-clock

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

Additional issues

rchk

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 10.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.4

READMEYes · 758 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 177 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%174 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 98%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

1.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #320 · ~4.8K/day · ~147.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

112.7K30 days

328.2K90 days

1.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on32K r2u13 autocran299.8K conda_forge17.8K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/clock ↗Organization: r-lib

110Stars

7Forks

21Open issues

3Open PRs

14Releases

1,096Commits

7Commit identities

1,096 commits · Last activity 2026-01-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.7.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.7.4 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-06 · 1082026-07-07 · 110

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/clock on 2026-10-18.

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 2026-01-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-13

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing clock adds 7 packages (5 with compiled code, 3.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (5)

cli lifecycle rlang tzdb vctrs

LinkingTo (2)

cpp11 tzdb

Suggests (8)

covr knitr magrittr pillar rmarkdown slider testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

23direct

356indirect

Imports 23

Suggested by 6

Show all 29 packagesHide all 29 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

duckdb CDMConnector stats19 messydates ivs constructive

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Davis Vaughan

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.7.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.6.1

Howard Hinnant

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.0

Releases (14)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.7.4Latest
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2026-01-13 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.7.3
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2025-03-21 · diff ↗
0.7.2
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2025-01-22 · diff ↗
0.7.1
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2024-07-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7.0
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2023-05-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
as_year_week_day, calendar_spanning_seq, date_spanning_seq, date_time_info, date_time_set_zone, date_time_zone, duration_spanning_seq, is_year_week_day, time_point_spanning_seq, year_week_day, zoned_time_info
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.6.1
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2022-07-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.6.0
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2021-12-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
calendar_count_between, date_count_between, time_point_count_between
0.5.0
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2021-10-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
date_time_parse_RFC_3339, sys_time_parse_RFC_3339
0.4.1
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2021-09-21 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2021-07-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
calendar_end, calendar_start, date_end, date_start, invalid_remove
0.3.1
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2021-06-28 · diff ↗

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R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.0
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2021-04-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
zone_database_names, zone_database_version

added 3 exports
date_seq, tzdb_names, tzdb_version
0.2.0
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2021-04-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
as_date, as_date_time, date_now, date_today
0.1.0
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2021-03-31
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-31
Total releases: 14 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 0.5 KB / 3 files
Download size: 547 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("clock")

Format

Vaughan, D., & Posit Software, PBC. (2026). clock: Date-Time Types and Tools (Version 0.7.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.clock

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 clock version 0.7.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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