R Observatory: Metrics for remotes version 2.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

remotes

2.5.0Package record

R Package Installation from Remote Repositories, Including 'GitHub'

38packages dependsuggested by 101

6.1Mdownloads / year

76.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Download and install R packages stored in 'GitHub', 'GitLab', 'Bitbucket', 'Bioconductor', or plain 'subversion' or 'git' repositories. This package provides the 'install_*' functions in 'devtools'. Indeed most of the code was copied over from 'devtools'.

Changes in 2.5.0

install_github() now uses credentials from the git credential store, if GITHUB_PAT and GITHUB_TOKEN are not set.
The Remotes field in DESCRIPTION now accepts explicit package names: <pkgname>=<type>::<username>/<repo> (#719, @heavywatal).
dev_package_deps() now works for packages with Enhances dependencies (#711, @maksymiuks).
install_dev() now ignores a trailing slash (#692, @krlmlr).
System requirements now support Ubuntu 22.04.
local_package_deps() now errors for non-existent directories (#772, @MatthieuStigler).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/remotes. 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-remotes

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-remotes

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-remotes

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-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
OK13 OK2026-06-19
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-17
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.5.0

READMEYes · 983 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.5.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 27 (9 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 18%3 run in a plain check · 14 never run
Exported functions with examples: 68%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 20%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Dependency resolution for R package development

How these are measured

Downloads

6.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #156 · ~16.8K/day · ~510.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

356.6K30 days

1.1M90 days

6.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on59.8K r2u179 autocran306.3K conda_forge4.8K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/remotes ↗Organization: r-lib

356Stars

160Forks

123Open issues

18Open PRs

13Releases

904Commits

79Commit identities

r

904 commits · Last activity 2026-09-24 · +0.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.5.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.5.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 81%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 48
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-09-10 · 3492026-10-14 · 356

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/remotes 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 2026-09-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-03-17

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (4)

methodsstatstoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

brew callrcodetoolscovr curl git2r knitr mockery pingr pkgbuild rmarkdown rprojroot testthat webfakes withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

38direct

30indirect

Imports 38

Suggested by 101

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

xfun pkgload devtools BiocManager renv parsnip marginaleffects modelsummary bigmemory mlr3

and 91 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 2.4.2 (2021) · added in 1.1.0

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Ascent Digital Services

Copyright holder · added in 2.5.0

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.5.0

Previously maintained by Jim Hester (2.0.4 to 2.4.1) and Gábor Csárdi (1.0.0 to 2.0.3).

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Mango Solutions

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2.4.2.1

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2.4.2.1

Gabor Csardi

no longer listed · 1.0.0

Releases (17)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.5.0Latest
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2024-03-17 · current release · diff ↗
2.4.2.1
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2023-07-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.4.2
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2021-11-30 · diff ↗
2.4.1
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2021-09-29 · diff ↗
2.4.0
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2021-06-02 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.3.0
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2021-04-01 · diff ↗
2.2.0
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2020-07-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
add_metadata, github_remote, install_remote, remote_download, remote_metadata, remote_package_name, remote_sha, system_requirements
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.1.1
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2020-02-15 · diff ↗
2.1.0
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2019-06-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
bioc_version, git_credentials

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.0.4
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2019-04-10 · diff ↗
2.0.3
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2019-04-09 · diff ↗
2.0.2
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2018-10-30 · diff ↗
2.0.1
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2018-10-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
available_packages, available_packages_reset, available_packages_set
2.0.0
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2018-10-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
gitlab_pat, install_bioc, install_cran, install_dev, install_gitlab, standardise_dep
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.1.1
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2017-12-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
parse_github_url, parse_repo_spec
1.1.0
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2017-07-09 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0.0
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2016-09-10
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-09-10
Total releases: 17 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 2) in 2.4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 161 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("remotes")

Format

Csárdi, G., Ascent Digital Services, Posit Software, PBC, Chang, W., Hester, J., Morgan, M., Tenenbaum, D., & Wickham, H. (2024). remotes: R Package Installation from Remote Repositories, Including 'GitHub' (Version 2.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.remotes

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for remotes version 2.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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