R Observatory: Metrics for ps version 1.9.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ps

1.9.3

List, Query, Manipulate System Processes

19packages dependsuggested by 18

14.8Mdownloads / year

61.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

List, query and manipulate all system processes, on 'Windows', 'Linux' and 'macOS'.

Changes in 1.9.3

On Linux, process create times are now computed using CLOCK_REALTIME - CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead of /proc/stat btime, giving sub-second precision (previously, integer-second boot time caused up to 1s error). Handle validation accepts both the precise and the legacy boot time, so handles created by older versions of processx continue to work. For https://github.com/r-lib/processx/issues/394 and https://github.com/r-lib/processx/issues/402.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/ps. 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-ps

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-ps

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-ps

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: 3.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-04
WARNING8 OK, 6 WARNING2026-03-30
ERROR8 OK, 5 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-03-29

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WARNING9 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-03-21
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-17
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.9.3

READMEYes · 2,199 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.9.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 57 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%47 run in a plain check (45 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 84%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

14.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #43 · ~40.6K/day · ~1.2M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1M30 days

3.5M90 days

14.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on215.7K r2u202 autocran1.4M conda_forge22.8K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/ps ↗Organization: r-lib

83Stars

23Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

25Releases

860Commits

18Commit identities

860 commits · Last activity 2026-09-29 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.9.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.9.3 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 17
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-11 · 812026-07-07 · 83

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/ps 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 (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesSupport guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-29 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-20

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

callr covr curl pillar pingr processx R6 rlang testthat webfakes withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

19direct

1,179indirect

Imports 19

Suggested by 18

Show all 37 packagesHide all 37 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

processx testthat targets bigstatsr pkgdepends scTenifoldNet crew crew.cluster isopam thisutils shinyMixR jobqueue ctgimme osrm.backend syrup memtoc misha virtuoso dragonfarm

Suggests, most downloaded first

cli callr pak rcmdcheck xopen pingr otelsdk av rxode2 TmCalculator autometric Certara.RsNLME wdpar netOP prompt cometr photon shard

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Author

Author

Author

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.7.6

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.7.5

Releases (26)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.9.3Latest
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2026-04-20 · current release · diff ↗
1.9.2
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2026-03-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ps_string
1.9.1
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2025-04-12 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.9.0
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2025-02-19 · diff ↗
1.8.1
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2024-10-28 · diff ↗
1.8.0
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2024-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
ps_apps, ps_disk_io_counters, ps_fs_info, ps_fs_mount_point, ps_fs_stat, ps_wait
1.7.7
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2024-07-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.7.6
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2024-01-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.7.5
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2023-04-18 · diff ↗
1.7.4
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2023-04-02 · diff ↗
1.7.3
record
2023-03-21 · diff ↗
1.7.2
record
2022-10-26 · diff ↗

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1.7.1
record
2022-06-18 · diff ↗
1.7.0
record
2022-04-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
ps_get_cpu_affinity, ps_memory_full_info, ps_set_cpu_affinity
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.6.0
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2021-02-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ps_loadavg, ps_system_cpu_times
1.5.0
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2020-12-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
ps_descent, ps_shared_lib_users, ps_shared_libs
1.4.0
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2020-10-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
ps_disk_partitions, ps_disk_usage, ps_get_nice, ps_set_nice, ps_system_memory, ps_system_swap, ps_tty_size, ps_windows_nice_values
1.3.4
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2020-08-11 · diff ↗
1.3.3
record
2020-05-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
errno
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.3.2
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2020-02-13 · diff ↗
1.3.1
record
2020-02-12 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.3.0
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2018-12-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ps_cpu_count
1.2.1
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2018-11-06 · diff ↗
1.2.0
record
2018-10-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ps_connections
1.1.0
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2018-08-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
CleanupReporter, ps_find_tree, ps_interrupt, ps_kill_tree, ps_mark_tree, ps_num_fds, ps_open_files, ps_users, with_process_cleanup
1.0.0
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2018-07-22
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-22
Total releases: 26 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE in 1.4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 168 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ps")

Format

Csárdi, G., Posit Software, PBC, Daeschler, D., Loden, J., & Rodola', G. (2026). ps: List, Query, Manipulate System Processes (Version 1.9.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ps

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ps version 1.9.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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