R Observatory: Metrics for generics version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

generics

0.1.4

Common S3 Generics not Provided by Base R Methods Related to Model Fitting

258packages dependsuggested by 23

16.7Mdownloads / year

65.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

In order to reduce potential package dependencies and conflicts, generics provides a number of commonly used S3 generics.

Changes in 0.1.4

Patch release for CRAN

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/generics. 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-generics

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-generics

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-generics

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-oldrel-windows-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 0.1.4

READMEYes · 219 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 35 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 9%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 38%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

16.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #30 · ~45.7K/day · ~1.4M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3M30 days

4M90 days

16.7M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on230.4K r2u99 autocran2.1M conda_forge22.6K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/generics ↗Organization: r-lib

60Stars

13Forks

8Open issues

2Open PRs

5Releases

191Commits

10Commit identities

191 commits · Last activity 2025-05-10 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.4 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 15
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 592026-07-07 · 60

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/generics 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 2025-05-10 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-05-10

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr pkgload testthat tibble withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

258direct

7,757indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 256

Suggested by 23

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 210 more dependents and 23 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Max Kuhn

Author

Davis Vaughan

Author

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.1.4

Previously maintained by Max Kuhn (0.0.1 to 0.0.2).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.0.1 to 0.1.3

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.4Latest
record
2025-05-10 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.3
record
2022-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
rank_results
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.2
record
2022-02-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
accuracy, forecast
0.1.1
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2021-10-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
explore, tune_args
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.0
record
2020-10-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
min_grid, required_pkgs, tunable
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.0.2
record
2018-11-29 · diff ↗
0.0.1
record
2018-10-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-10-26
Total releases: 7 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-2 in 0.1.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 46 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("generics")

Format

Wickham, H., Posit Software, PBC, Kuhn, M., & Vaughan, D. (2025). generics: Common S3 Generics not Provided by Base R Methods Related to Model Fitting (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.generics

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for generics version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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