R Observatory: Metrics for pingr version 2.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pingr

2.0.5Package record

Check if a Remote Computer is Up

11packages dependsuggested by 9

459.9Kdownloads / year

16.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Check if a remote computer is up. It can either just call the system ping command, or check a specified TCP port.

Changes in 2.0.5

pingr now compiles with musl, e.g. on Alpine Linux, again.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/pingr. 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-pingr

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-pingr

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-pingr

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: 2.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-10
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.5

READMEYes · 254 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 7 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check (6 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

459.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #618 · ~1.3K/day · ~38.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26.9K30 days

94.6K90 days

459.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on6.3K r2u98 autocran6.7K conda_forge198 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/pingr ↗Organization: r-lib

38Stars

9Forks

4Open issues

1Open PRs

8Releases

186Commits

5Commit identities

rdnsis-onlinepingtcp

186 commits · Last activity 2026-06-05 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.0.5.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.0.5 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 31
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 372026-07-07 · 38

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/pingr on 2026-10-25.

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 2026-06-05 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-12-12

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pingr adds 3 packages (2 with compiled code, 422 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: processx 191 KB, ps 168 KB, R6 63 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (2)

processxutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

covr ps testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

3indirect

Imports 11

Suggested by 9

Show all 20 packagesHide all 20 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

shinytest2 shinytest yfR codemetar wdpar gwasrapidd proffer ropenblas RBaseX cymruservices rgsrs

Suggests, most downloaded first

ps remotes pak pkgcache pkgsearch pkgdepends webdriver vetiver openmpp

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.0.3

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2014)

Releases (10)

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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1.2.0
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2019-10-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
is_up
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-22
Total releases: 10 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 18 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pingr")

Format

Csárdi, G., & Posit Software, PBC. (2024). pingr: Check if a Remote Computer is Up (Version 2.0.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pingr

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pingr version 2.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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