R Observatory: Metrics for pkgdepends version 0.9.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pkgdepends

0.9.1Package record

Package Dependency Resolution and Downloads

1packages dependsuggested by 1

78.5Kdownloads / year

16.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Find recursive dependencies of 'R' packages from various sources. Solve the dependencies to obtain a consistent set of packages to install. Download packages, and install them. It supports packages on 'CRAN', 'Bioconductor' and other 'CRAN-like' repositories, 'GitHub', package 'URLs', and local package trees and files. It caches metadata and package files via the 'pkgcache' package, and performs all 'HTTP' requests, downloads, builds and installations in parallel. 'pkgdepends' is the workhorse of the 'pak' package.

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/pkgdepends. 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-pkgdepends

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-pkgdepends

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-pkgdepends

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: 4.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-21
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-08-17
OK13 OK2026-08-05

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-16
WARNING7 OK, 6 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-03-21
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.1

READMEYes · 447 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 39 (10 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%14 run in a plain check (11 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 52%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 81%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

78.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,558 · ~215/day · ~6.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.7K30 days

14.8K90 days

78.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.5K r2u10 autocran2.4K conda_forge97 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/pkgdepends ↗Organization: r-lib

135Stars

47Forks

78Open issues

5Open PRs

16Releases

1,734Commits

23Commit identities

r

1,734 commits · Last activity 2026-08-14 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.9.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.9.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
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

2026-07-09 · 1342026-07-13 · 135

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/pkgdepends 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 2026-08-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-09

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS 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 2026-06-18
Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/skills, CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: CLAUDE.md
GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-06-18
Pull request: opened by its own account

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

33 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pkgdepends adds 14 packages (9 with compiled code, 4.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (15)

callr cli curl desc filelock jsonlite lpSolve pkgbuild pkgcache processx ps R6statsutilszip

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (21)

asciicastcodetoolscovr debugme fansi fs gh gitcreds glue htmlwidgets mockery pak pingr (>= 2.0.0)rmarkdown rstudioapi spelling svglite testthat (>= 3.2.0)tibble webfakes withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

shinylive

Suggests, most downloaded first

pak

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.7.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.3.1 to 0.6.0

Releases (16)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.1Latest
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2026-04-09 · current release · diff ↗
0.9.0
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2025-05-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
scan_deps
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.8.0
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2024-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
ghr, ghrepo, pkg_build, repo
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7.2
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2024-03-17 · diff ↗
0.7.1
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2023-12-11 · diff ↗
0.7.0
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2023-11-10 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2023-07-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
sysreqs_check_installed, sysreqs_db_list, sysreqs_db_match, sysreqs_db_update, sysreqs_fix_installed, sysreqs_install_plan, sysreqs_is_supported, sysreqs_list_system_packages, sysreqs_platforms
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.0
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2023-04-19 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2022-12-17 · diff ↗
0.3.2
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2022-09-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.1
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2022-04-08 · diff ↗

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0.3.0
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2022-02-16 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2021-11-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
current_config
0.1.2
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2021-06-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.1
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2021-05-17 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2021-03-16
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-16
Total releases: 16 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 1.4 MB

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Cite

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citation("pkgdepends")

Format

Csárdi, G., & Posit Software, PBC. (2026). pkgdepends: Package Dependency Resolution and Downloads (Version 0.9.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pkgdepends

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pkgdepends version 0.9.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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