R Observatory: Metrics for filesstrings version 3.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

filesstrings

3.4.0Package record

Handy File and String Manipulation

4packages depend

13.7Kdownloads / year

78.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rory NolanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

This started out as a package for file and string manipulation. Since then, the 'fs' and 'strex' packages emerged, offering functionality previously given by this package (but it's done better in these new ones). Those packages have hence almost pushed 'filesstrings' into extinction. However, it still has a small number of unique, handy file manipulation functions which can be seen in the vignette. One example is a function to remove spaces from all file names in a directory.

Changes in 3.4.0

NEW FEATURES

Add github.io website to DESCRIPTION.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("filesstrings", 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("rorynolan/filesstrings")

Development version from rorynolan/filesstrings. 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-filesstrings

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-filesstrings

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-filesstrings

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.4.0

READMEYes · 123 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.4.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 35includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 36%4 run in a plain check · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 32%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 32%
Help pages citing references: 3%

Vignettes (1)

Files HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

13.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,526 · ~37/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1K30 days

3K90 days

13.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on134 r2u1 autocran2.5K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

rorynolan/filesstrings ↗Account: rorynolan

21Stars

6Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

12Releases

199Commits

6Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 199 commits · Last activity 2024-02-03

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 9 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rorynolan/filesstrings on 2026-10-21.

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 (3)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-02-03 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 5 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing filesstrings adds 13 packages (10 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5stringr

Imports (7)

checkmate magrittr purrr rlang strex stringi withr (>= 2.1.0)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

covr dplyr knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

detrendr nandb forceR SSHAARP

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Rory Nolan

Sergi Padilla-Parra

Thesis advisor · added in 0.3.2

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Jim Hester

no longer listed · 0.3.2 to 1.1.0

Kirill Muller

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.0

Releases (31)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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3.1.0
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2019-05-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
count_matches, get_currencies, get_currency, str_first_instance_indices, str_last_instance_indices, str_nth_instance_indices, str_with_patterns

added 68 exports
after_first, after_last, after_nth, alphord_nums, before_first, before_last, before_nth, elem, elems, extract_currencies, first_currency, last_currency, locate_first, locate_last, locate_nth, nth_currency, paste_elems, split_by_numbers, split_by_nums, split_camel_case, str_alphord_nums, str_before_last_dot, str_can_be_numeric, str_elems, str_extend_char_vec, str_extract_currencies, str_extract_non_numerics, str_extract_numbers, str_first_currency, str_first_non_numeric and 38 more
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-08-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
first_number_before_first, first_number_before_last, first_number_before_mth, last_number_before_first, last_number_before_last, last_number_before_mth, nth_number_before_first, nth_number_before_last, nth_number_before_mth
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removed 40 exports
AllEqual, BeforeLastDot, CanBeNumeric, CharListElemsNthElem, CountMatches, CreateDirsIfNotThere, DuplicatesToSingles, ExtendCharVec, ExtractNonNumerics, ExtractNumbers, GetCurrencies, GetCurrency, GiveExt, GroupClose, LocateBraces, MergeTablesOnDisk, MoveFiles, NiceFileNums, NiceNums, NthNonNumeric, NthNumber, NumListElemsNthElem, PasteCollapseListElems, PasteDifferentLengths, PutInPos, RemoveDirs, RemoveFileNameSpaces, RemoveQuoted, RenameWithNums, SplitCamelCase and 10 more

added 9 exports
first_number_after_first, first_number_after_last, first_number_after_mth, last_number_after_first, last_number_after_last, last_number_after_mth, nth_number_after_first, nth_number_after_last, nth_number_after_mth
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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create_dirs, merge_tables_on_disk, num_list_nth_elems, paste_collapse_list_elems, paste_different_lengths, remove_dirs, str_list_nth_elems, str_list_remove_empties

added 12 exports
create_dir, first_non_numeric, first_number, last_non_numeric, last_number, remove_dir, str_after_first, str_after_last, str_before_first, str_before_last, str_first_instance_indices, str_last_instance_indices
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2017-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 41 exports
all_equal, before_last_dot, can_be_numeric, count_matches, create_dirs, extend_char_vec, extract_non_numerics, extract_numbers, get_currencies, get_currency, give_ext, group_close, locate_braces, merge_tables_on_disk, move_files, nice_file_nums, nice_nums, nth_non_numeric, nth_number, num_list_nth_elems, paste_collapse_list_elems, paste_different_lengths, put_in_pos, remove_dirs, remove_filename_spaces, remove_quoted, rename_with_nums, singleize, str_after_nth, str_before_nth and 11 more
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2017-06-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
PutFilesInDir, SplitCamelcase

added 3 exports
SplitCamelCase, dir.remove, file.move
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MakeExtName, StrReverse

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GiveExt
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-02-23
Total releases: 31 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 47 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("filesstrings")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.00260.

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 filesstrings version 3.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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