R Observatory: Metrics for rlang version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rlang

1.3.0

Functions for Base Types and Core R and 'Tidyverse' Features

3,980packages dependsuggested by 177

29.3Mdownloads / year

84.8%test coverage

5/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lionel HenryCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit, PBC

A toolbox for working with base types, core R features like the condition system, and core 'Tidyverse' features like tidy evaluation.

Changes in 1.3.0

hash() now uses its own walking strategy to make it independent of pecularities of the R serialiser. This fixes stability issues with function bytecode and shrinkable vectors on R 4.6.0 (#1681). This does mean that with this version all hash values will now be different. In general we gain stability across versions of R, but may lose some stability across versions of rlang. We'll try and avoid changes to our hash algorithm for the sake of stability but you should assume it's always possible for a new version to invalidate existing hashes.
Fixed env_get() issue causing double evaluation of active bindings on older R versions <= 4.4 (#1893).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/rlang. 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-rlang

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-rlang

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-rlang

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

8NOTE5OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Base package in Suggests/Enhances imported in NAMESPACE:
  ‘stats’

r-devel-windows-x86_64

Base package in Suggests/Enhances imported in NAMESPACE:
  'stats'

NOTEcompiled coder-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

File ‘rlang/libs/rlang.so’:
  Found non-API calls to R: ‘PRENV’, ‘PRVALUE’, ‘R_PromiseExpr’,
    ‘Rf_allocSExp’, ‘Rf_findVarInFrame3’, ‘SETLENGTH’,
    ‘SET_GROWABLE_BIT’, ‘SET_PRCODE’, ‘SET_PRENV’, ‘SET_PRVALUE’,
    ‘SET_TRUELENGTH’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

File 'rlang/libs/x64/rlang.dll':
  Found non-API calls to R: 'PRENV', 'PRVALUE', 'R_PromiseExpr',
    'Rf_allocSExp', 'Rf_findVarInFrame3', 'SETLENGTH',
    'SET_GROWABLE_BIT', 'SET_PRCODE', 'SET_PRENV', 'SET_PRVALUE',
    'SET_TRUELENGTH'

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual,
and section 'Moving into C API compliance' for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘args_error_context.Rd’ ‘caller_arg.Rd’ ‘expr.Rd’ ‘qq_show.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE5 OK, 8 NOTE2026-10-17
ERROR4 OK, 7 NOTE, 1 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-10-15
WARNING4 OK, 8 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
NOTE5 OK, 8 NOTE2026-09-25
ERROR5 OK, 7 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-18

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NOTE7 OK, 6 NOTE2026-09-12
ERROR6 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-08-20
WARNING7 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-08-17
NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-08-12
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-08-09
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-07-04
ERROR9 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-24
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-06-19
WARNING10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-17
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-06-15
ERROR9 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-13
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR9 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-05-24
ERROR9 OK, 2 NOTE, 2 ERROR2026-05-14
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-05-11
ERROR9 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-05-10
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-05-08
ERROR8 OK, 3 NOTE, 2 ERROR2026-05-04
NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTE2026-04-30
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-28
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-04-24
ERROR9 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-16
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-04-11
WARNING9 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-04-09
ERROR4 OK, 5 NOTE, 4 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
WARNING4 OK, 5 NOTE, 5 WARNING2026-03-25
ERROR3 OK, 5 NOTE, 5 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-03-22
WARNING4 OK, 5 NOTE, 5 WARNING2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.0

READMEYes · 298 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 222 (90 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 99%129 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 66%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 28%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

29.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1 · ~80.2K/day · ~2.4M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.5M30 days

7.5M90 days

29.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on389.7K r2u1.8K autocran2.6M conda_forge25.4K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/rlang ↗Organization: r-lib

591Stars

156Forks

135Open issues

21Open PRs

42Releases

6,001Commits

97Commit identities

r

6,001 commits · Last activity 2026-10-06 · +0.9% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.3.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.3.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 18
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-09-21 · 5332026-10-15 · 591

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/rlang 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 (2)

Code of conductCODEOWNERS

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-05

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirRStudio project

Git structural (1)

blame-ignore revs

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-01-26
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 1 by its own account
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-03-30
Seen in the repository: .claude
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (18)

cli covr crayon desc fs glue knitr magrittrmethodspillar pkgload rmarkdownstatstestthat tibble usethis vctrs withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3,980direct

9,616indirect

Depends 24 · Imports 3,956

Suggested by 177

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 3,932 more dependents and 177 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Lionel Henry

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2017)

Hadley Wickham

Author

Posit, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.1.0

mikefc

Copyright holder · added in 0.4.10

Hash implementation based on Mike's xxhashlite

Yann Collet

Copyright holder · added in 0.4.10

Author of the embedded xxHash library

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1 to 1.0.6

Releases (44)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.3.0Latest
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2026-07-05 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.0
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2026-04-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
check_bool, check_data_frame, check_number_decimal, check_number_whole, check_string, stop_input_type
1.1.7
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2026-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
%&&%
1.1.6
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2025-04-11 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.5
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2025-01-17 · diff ↗
1.1.4
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2024-06-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.3
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1.1.2
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2023-11-04 · diff ↗
1.1.1
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2023-04-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.0
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2023-03-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
int_along, lgl_along

added 3 exports
env_is_user_facing, ffi_standalone_check_number_1.0.7, ffi_standalone_is_bool_1.0.7
1.0.6
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2022-09-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
error_call
1.0.5
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2022-08-31 · diff ↗

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1.0.4
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2022-07-12 · diff ↗
1.0.3
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2022-06-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
env_coalesce, ns_registry_env, reset_message_verbosity, reset_warning_verbosity
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.2
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2022-03-04 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2022-02-03 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2022-01-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 86 exports
as_env, as_overscope, as_pairlist, bytes_along, bytes_len, call_depth, call_frame, call_parse_type, call_stack, caller_frame, chr_along, chr_len, cpl_along, cpl_len, ctxt_depth, ctxt_stack, current_frame, dbl_along, dbl_len, dots_definitions, env_bind_exprs, env_bind_fns, frame_position, int_len, is_bare_env, is_binary_lang, is_call_stack, is_definition, is_env, is_eval_stack and 56 more

added 42 exports
names2<-, call_match, caller_arg, caller_call, check_dots_empty, check_dots_empty0, check_dots_unnamed, check_dots_used, check_exclusive, check_required, cnd_inherits, current_call, data_sym, data_syms, englue, env_cache, format_error_call, frame_call, frame_fn, global_entrace, global_handle, global_prompt_install, hash_file, is_bare_complex, is_call_simple, is_complex, is_error, is_message, is_named2, is_scalar_complex and 12 more
0.4.12
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R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.11
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2021-05-01 · diff ↗
0.4.10
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2020-12-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
check_installed, hash
0.4.9
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2020-11-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
%<~%, enquo0, enquos0, env_browse, env_is_browsed, inject, zap_srcref
0.4.8
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0.4.7
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2020-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
arg_match0, call_parse_type, raw_deparse_str
0.4.6
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.5
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0.4.4
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0.4.3
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2020-01-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
.env
0.4.2
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2019-11-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
cnd_bullets, cnd_issue, format_bullets

added 7 exports
cnd_body, cnd_footer, cnd_header, format_error_bullets, local_bindings, local_interactive, local_options
0.4.1
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2019-10-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
cnd_bullets, cnd_entrace, cnd_issue, cnd_message, format_bullets, trace_length
0.4.0
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2019-06-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 19 exports
UQE, as_dictionary, as_native_character, as_native_string, as_quosureish, as_utf8_string, chr_encoding, coerce_lang, eval_tidy_, is_dictionary, is_quosureish, lang_type_of, mut_latin1_locale, mut_mbcs_locale, mut_utf8_locale, set_chr_encoding, set_str_encoding, str_encoding, switch_lang

added 6 exports
is_bool, is_weakref, new_weakref, pairlist2, wref_key, wref_value
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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0.3.1
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2019-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
as_label, as_name, call_ns, done, entrace, is_done_box, is_interactive, last_trace, scoped_interactive, with_interactive
0.3.0.1
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0.3.0
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2018-10-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 9 exports
cnd_abort, cnd_error, cnd_inform, cnd_message, cnd_warn, cnd_warning, inplace, new_cnd, rst_muffle

added 37 exports
%@%<-, as_quosures, calling, cnd_muffle, cnd_type, current_env, current_fn, env_bind_active, env_bind_lazy, env_binding_are_active, env_binding_are_lazy, env_binding_are_locked, env_binding_lock, env_binding_unlock, env_is_locked, env_label, env_length, env_lock, env_name, env_print, env_unlock, exec, interrupt, is_attached, is_bare_environment, is_environment, is_lambda, is_zap, last_error, new_quosures and 7 more
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
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2018-02-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 87 exports
fn_body<-, fn_fmls<-, fn_fmls_names<-, as_box, as_box_if, as_data_mask, as_data_pronoun, as_environment, call2, call_args, call_args_names, call_fn, call_modify, call_name, call_standardise, catch_cnd, chr_unserialise_unicode, cnd, cnd_inform, cnd_warn, enexprs, enquos, ensym, ensyms, env_get_list, env_poke, env_poke_parent, error_cnd, expr_deparse, expr_print and 57 more
0.1.6
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is_reference
0.1.4
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0.1.2
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0.1.1
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added 3 exports
is_node, new_environment, new_language
0.1
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2017-05-06
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-06
Total releases: 44 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 0.4.10
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 766 KB

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Henry, L., Posit, PBC, mikefc, Collet, Y., & Wickham, H. (2026). rlang: Functions for Base Types and Core R and 'Tidyverse' Features (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rlang

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rlang version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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