R Observatory: Metrics for credentials version 2.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

credentials

2.0.3Package record

Tools for Managing SSH and Git Credentials

4packages depend

2.3Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Setup and retrieve HTTPS and SSH credentials for use with 'git' and other services. For HTTPS remotes the package interfaces the 'git-credential' utility which 'git' uses to store HTTP usernames and passwords. For SSH remotes we provide convenient functions to find or generate appropriate SSH keys. The package both helps the user to setup a local git installation, and also provides a back-end for git/ssh client libraries to authenticate with existing user credentials.

Changes in 2.0.3

Fix edge case for when getwd() returns NULL

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/credentials. 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-credentials

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-credentials

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-credentials

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 0%1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 20%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 20%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Managing SSH and Git Credentials in R HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #263 · ~6.2K/day · ~188.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

142.1K30 days

467.3K90 days

2.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on109.5K r2u12 autocran223.5K conda_forge2.6K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/credentials ↗Organization: r-lib

75Stars

4Forks

9Open issues

2Open PRs

3Releases

168Commits

3Commit identities

rrstatsgitpasswordssh

168 commits · Last activity 2025-09-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-17 · 742026-07-07 · 75

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/credentials on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowAppVeyor

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

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing credentials adds 5 packages (5 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

openssl sys curl jsonlite askpass

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

197indirect

Imports 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

gert ssh worcs rbranding

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2019)

Releases (10)

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-05
Total releases: 10 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 277 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("credentials")

Format

Ooms, J. (2025). credentials: Tools for Managing SSH and Git Credentials (Version 2.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.credentials

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for credentials version 2.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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