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Vector Helpers

380packages dependsuggested by 80
25.7Mdownloads / year
88.4%test coverage
7/13flavors OK

Overview

About
Maintained by Davis VaughanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Defines new notions of prototype and size that are used to provide tools for consistent and well-founded type-coercion and size-recycling, and are in turn connected to ideas of type- and size-stability useful for analysing function interfaces.

Changes in 0.7.3
  • Experimentally turned KeepSource: true on in DESCRIPTION.
  • Fixed an accidental usage of non-API PRVALUE() (#2165).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

Health

CRAN checks
1ERROR5NOTE7OK
Check messages
ERRORre-building of vignette outputsr-release-macos-x86_64
Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘pillar.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Error: processing vignette 'pillar.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
there is no package called ‘sass’
--- failed re-building ‘pillar.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘s3-vector.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Error: processing vignette 's3-vector.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
there is no package called ‘sass’
--- failed re-building ‘s3-vector.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘stability.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Error: processing vignette 'stability.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
there is no package called ‘sass’
--- failed re-building ‘stability.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘type-size.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Error: processing vignette 'type-size.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
there is no package called ‘sass’
--- failed re-building ‘type-size.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following files failed:
  ‘pillar.Rmd’ ‘s3-vector.Rmd’ ‘stability.Rmd’ ‘type-size.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
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 ‘vctrs/libs/vctrs.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 'vctrs/libs/x64/vctrs.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:
  ‘name_spec.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 7.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
Status changes
  • ERROR7 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 ERRORNow
  • ERROR9 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-05-02
  • NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTE2026-04-30
  • ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-28
  • NOTE8 OK, 6 NOTE2026-04-15
  • ERROR5 OK, 8 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-30
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  • NOTE7 OK, 7 NOTE2026-03-28
  • ERROR7 OK, 6 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-26
  • WARNING2 OK, 7 NOTE, 5 WARNING2026-03-21
  • ERROR2 OK, 6 NOTE, 5 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-03-10
Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.3
READMEYes · 263 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown
Help pages
99 (41 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%61 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
70%
Documented parameters
80%
Return-value docs
54%
Help pages citing references
0%
Vignettes (4)
How these are measured

Downloads

25.7M
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #3 · ~70.5K/day · ~2.1M/mo
Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.
2M30 days
6.3M90 days
25.7M1 year
Compare downloads with other packages →
Also on414K r2u211 autocran2.5M conda_forge25.1K c2d4u
How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/vctrs ↗Organization: r-lib
306Stars
77Forks
166Open issues
22Open PRs
31Releases
3,954Commits
40Commit identities
rs3-vectors
3,954 commits · Last activity 2026-04-17 · -0.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.7.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.7.3 (checked 2026-10-11)
Responsiveness
How these are sampled
PRs merged (all time)
89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
70
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
1

Stars over time

2025-09-10 · 2952026-10-03 · 306
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/vctrs 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 2026-04-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-17

Coverage (1)
Coverage reporting (Codecov)
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CRAN release process (2)
cran-comments.mdrevdep/
Lint, format, editor (3)
AirVS CodeRStudio 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.

  • Claude Codefirst seen 2025-12-19
    Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/skills
    Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies
19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vctrs adds 4 packages (3 with compiled code, 1.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB, glue 127 KB.

Depends (1)
R >= 4.0.0
Imports (4)
cligluelifecyclerlang
LinkingTo (0)
none
Suggests (15)
bit64covrcrayondplyrgenericsknitrpillarpkgdownrmarkdowntestthat (>= 3.0.0)tibblewaldowithrxml2zeallot
Enhances (0)
none
Dependency license breakdown →
Reverse dependencies
380direct
11,631indirect
Depends 1 · Imports 379 · LinkingTo 2
Suggested by 80
Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents
Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first
ggplot2dplyrtibblepillarpurrrtidyrtidyselectstringrhmsvroomigraphhavendistributionalblobposteriormodelrgoogledrivegooglesheets4dbplyrhttr2dtplyrplotlyggdistarrowprofvisrecipesdownlitgthardhatclocksparsevctrsfurrrggforcetweenrggiraphodbclabelledggraphslidergtsummarystylerrsamplecardstidytextskimrparsnipyardstickworkflows

and 332 more dependents and 80 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)
Davis Vaughan
Author, Maintainer since 0.6.0 (2023) · added in 0.2.0
Lionel Henry
Author · added in 0.2.0
Hadley Wickham
Author
Posit Software, PBC
Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.6.0
data.table team
Copyright holder · added in 0.3.5
Radix sort based on data.table's forder() and their contribution to R's order()

Previously maintained by Lionel Henry (0.3.1 to 0.5.2) and Hadley Wickham (0.1.0 to 0.3.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)
RStudio
no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.5.2
Releases (31)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • 0.7.3Latest
    record
    2026-04-11 · current release · diff ↗
  • 0.7.2
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    2026-01-23 · diff ↗
  • 0.7.1
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    2026-01-23 · diff ↗
  • 0.7.0
    record
    2026-01-16 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 4 exports
    is_partial, new_partial, partial_factor, partial_frame
    added 14 exports
    list_all_recyclable, list_check_all_recyclable, list_combine, list_of_ptype, list_of_size, list_of_transpose, vec_case_when, vec_check_recyclable, vec_if_else, vec_pall, vec_pany, vec_recode_values, vec_replace_values, vec_replace_when
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
  • R
    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
  • 0.6.5
    record
    2023-12-02 · diff ↗
  • 0.6.4
    record
    2023-10-13 · diff ↗
  • 0.6.3
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    2023-06-15 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
  • 0.6.2
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    2023-04-19 · diff ↗
  • 0.6.1
    record
    2023-03-22 · diff ↗
  • 0.6.0
    record
    2023-03-16 · diff ↗ ·
    added 6 exports
    obj_check_list, obj_check_vector, obj_is_list, obj_is_vector, vec_check_size, vec_run_sizes
  • 0.5.2
    record
    2023-01-23 · diff ↗ ·
    added 5 exports
    vec_expand_grid, vec_set_difference, vec_set_intersect, vec_set_symmetric_difference, vec_set_union
  • 0.5.1
    record
    2022-11-16 · diff ↗
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  • 0.5.0
    record
    2022-10-22 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 2 exports
    validate_list_of, vec_list_cast
    added 6 exports
    list_all_size, list_check_all_size, list_unchop, vec_any_missing, vec_detect_missing, vec_rank
  • 0.4.2
    record
    2022-09-29 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
  • 0.4.1
    record
    2022-04-13 · diff ↗
  • 0.4.0
    record
    2022-03-30 · diff ↗ ·
    added 7 exports
    list_all_vectors, list_check_all_vectors, list_drop_empty, vec_check_list, vec_interleave, vec_locate_matches, vec_locate_sorted_groups
  • R
    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
  • 0.3.8
    record
    2021-04-29 · diff ↗
  • 0.3.7
    record
    2021-03-29 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    vec_detect_complete
  • 0.3.6
    record
    2020-12-17 · diff ↗
  • 0.3.5
    record
    2020-11-17 · diff ↗ ·
    added 3 exports
    vec_fill_missing, vec_identify_runs, vec_unrep
  • 0.3.4
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    2020-08-29 · diff ↗
  • 0.3.3
    record
    2020-08-28 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 2 exports
    vec_cast.table, vec_ptype2.table
    added 3 exports
    data_frame, df_list, vec_proxy_order
  • 0.3.2
    record
    2020-07-15 · diff ↗ ·
    added 3 exports
    vec_names, vec_names2, vec_set_names
  • 0.3.1
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    2020-06-05 · diff ↗
  • 0.3.0
    record
    2020-05-12 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 2 exports
    vec_ptype2.POSIXt, vec_ptype2.vctrs_unspecified
    added 15 exports
    df_cast, df_ptype2, list_sizes, tib_cast, tib_ptype2, vec_arith.POSIXlt, vec_cast.ordered, vec_cast.table, vec_cbind_frame_ptype, vec_ptype2.AsIs, vec_ptype2.POSIXct, vec_ptype2.POSIXlt, vec_ptype2.table, vec_rep, vec_rep_each
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
  • 0.2.4
    record
    2020-03-10 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    vec_unchop
  • 0.2.3
    record
    2020-02-20 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    vec_is_list
  • 0.2.2
    record
    2020-01-24 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 1 export
    %<-%
    added 11 exports
    num_as_location, num_as_location2, vec_as_location, vec_as_location2, vec_as_subscript, vec_as_subscript2, vec_chop, vec_group_id, vec_group_loc, vec_group_rle, vec_ptype2.complex
  • 0.2.1
    record
    2019-12-17 · diff ↗
  • 0.2.0
    record
    2019-07-06 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 20 exports
    vec_dim, vec_dims, vec_na, vec_type2.Date, vec_type2.POSIXt, vec_type2.character, vec_type2.data.frame, vec_type2.difftime, vec_type2.double, vec_type2.factor, vec_type2.integer, vec_type2.list, vec_type2.logical, vec_type2.ordered, vec_type2.tbl_df, vec_type2.vctrs_list_of, vec_type2.vctrs_unspecified, vec_type_finalise, vec_unspecified_cast, warn_lossy_cast
    added 43 exports
    allow_lossy_cast, maybe_lossy_cast, partial_factor, stop_incompatible_size, validate_list_of, vec_as_index, vec_as_names, vec_as_names_legacy, vec_assign, vec_cast.complex, vec_cast.integer64, vec_cast.raw, vec_default_cast, vec_default_ptype2, vec_init, vec_init_along, vec_is, vec_is_empty, vec_order, vec_proxy, vec_ptype2, vec_ptype2.Date, vec_ptype2.POSIXt, vec_ptype2.character, vec_ptype2.data.frame, vec_ptype2.difftime, vec_ptype2.double, vec_ptype2.factor, vec_ptype2.integer, vec_ptype2.integer64 and 13 more
  • R
    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
  • 0.1.0
    record
    2018-11-29
  • R
    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published
2018-11-29
Total releases
31 / 8 yrs
License
MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 0.3.5
Minimum R
≥ 4.0.0
Download size
1.0 MB

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citation("vctrs")
Vaughan, D., Posit Software, PBC, data.table team, Henry, L., & Wickham, H. (2026). vctrs: Vector Helpers (Version 0.7.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vctrs

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for vctrs version 0.7.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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