R Observatory: Metrics for whoami version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

whoami

1.3.0Package record

Username, Full Name, Email Address, 'GitHub' Username of the Current User

9packages dependsuggested by 12

225Kdownloads / year

56.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Look up the username and full name of the current user, the current user's email address and 'GitHub' username, using various sources of system and configuration information.

Changes in 1.3.0

Now fullname() uses the FULLNAME environment variable, if set.
Now email_address() uses the EMAIL environment variable, if set.

From inst/NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/whoami. 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-whoami

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-whoami

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-whoami

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: 54 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 0%5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

225K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,072 · ~616/day · ~18.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

10.2K30 days

35.3K90 days

225K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.5K r2u169 autocran1.5K conda_forge139 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/whoami ↗Organization: r-lib

20Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

95Commits

5Commit identities

r

95 commits · Last activity 2025-10-21 · 0% 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): 79%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 32
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-10-14 · 192026-07-07 · 20

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/whoami 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 2026-01-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirVS Code

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing whoami adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

httr jsonliteutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

covr mockery testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

2indirect

Imports 9

Suggested by 12

Show all 21 packagesHide all 21 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rhub goodpractice dataMaid ymlthis packager emodnet.wfs fledge dataReporter read.abares

Suggests, most downloaded first

cli desc quarto pkgKitten lgr pkgsearch littler blogdown dataquieR fritools WebAnalytics fritools2

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.1.2

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2015)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Gabor Csardi

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.1

Releases (6)

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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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.3.0Latest
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2019-03-19 · current release · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2018-09-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.1.2
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2017-10-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.1.1
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2015-07-13 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2015-06-11 · diff ↗

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1.0.0
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2015-06-09
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-09
Total releases: 6 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 6.8 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("whoami")

Format

Csárdi, G., & Salmon, M. (2019). whoami: Username, Full Name, Email Address, 'GitHub' Username of the Current User (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.whoami

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for whoami version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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