R Observatory: Metrics for pool version 1.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pool

1.0.5Package record

Object Pooling

12packages dependsuggested by 6

208.1Kdownloads / year

83.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Enables the creation of object pools, which make it less computationally expensive to fetch a new object. Currently the only supported pooled objects are 'DBI' connections.

Changes in 1.0.5

Added compatibility for dbplyr's upcoming dialect-based dispatch.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pool", 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("rstudio/pool")

Development version from rstudio/pool. 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-pool

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-pool

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-pool

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.5

READMEYes · 217 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 11 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 43%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 14%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Why pool? HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

208.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #898 · ~570/day · ~17.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19.6K30 days

47.5K90 days

208.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.2K r2u3 autocran3.3K conda_forge64 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/pool ↗Organization: rstudio

256Stars

32Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

243Commits

16Commit identities

243 commits · Last activity 2026-09-16 · +0.4% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.5.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.5 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 47
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-30 · 2532026-09-25 · 256

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/pool 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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-16 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-16

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-13
Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/skills
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

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

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pool adds 5 packages (3 with compiled code, 3.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, rlang 766 KB, DBI 727 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.6.0methods

Imports (4)

DBI later R6 rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

covr dbplyr dplyr knitr rmarkdown RSQLite shiny testthat tibble

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

12direct

9indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 11

Suggested by 6

Show all 18 packagesHide all 18 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ResultModelManager tidywikidatar surveydown sdstudio sqlhelper readepi repana stacomirtools mmirestriktor holi mmiCATs mmints

Suggests, most downloaded first

sf DatabaseConnector CDMConnector dm framework lgrExtra

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2023) · added in 1.0.0

Barbara Borges

Author

Joe Cheng

Author · added in 0.1.4.1

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.0.0

Previously maintained by Joe Cheng (0.1.4.1 to 0.1.6) and Barbara Borges (0.1.1 to 0.1.4).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.1.6

Releases (15)

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-09-23
Total releases: 15 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 1.0.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 40 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pool")

Format

Wickham, H., Posit Software, PBC, Borges, B., & Cheng, J. (2026). pool: Object Pooling (Version 1.0.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pool

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

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pool version 1.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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