R Observatory: Metrics for findInFiles version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

findInFiles

0.5.0Package record

Find Pattern in Files

0packages depend

7.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stéphane LaurentCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Creates a HTML widget which displays the results of searching for a pattern in files in a given folder. The results can be viewed in the 'RStudio' viewer pane, included in a 'R Markdown' document or in a 'Shiny' application. Also provides a 'Shiny' application allowing to run this widget and to navigate in the files found by the search. Instead of creating a HTML widget, it is also possible to get the results of the search in a 'tibble'. The search is performed by the 'grep' command-line utility.

Changes in 0.5.0

Files without base name (such as .gitignore) were excluded from the search.

This is no longer the case.

Hidden folders (those whose name starts with a dot) were not excluded from

the search when running a full recursive search (i.e. depth is NULL or a

negative integer). Now they are always excluded.

The argument ext of the findInFiles function has been renamed to

extensions and it can be a vector of file extensions now.

The arguments excludePattern and excludeFoldersPattern of the

findInFiles function can be some vectors now, to give multiple patterns.

The findInFiles function has now an argument includePattern. If a vector

of patterns is supplied to this argument, then only the files whose name matches

one of these patterns are included in the search.

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The findInFiles function has two new arguments maxCountPerFile and

maxCount. If an integer is supplied to maxCountPerFile, then this integer

is passed to the --max-count option of the grep command and then grep

stops to search in a file whenever it has found maxCountPerFile results in

this file. If an integer is supplied to maxCount, then only the

first maxCount results found by grep are returned; but grep does not

stop to search after it has found maxCount results: it internally returns all

the search results, but only the first maxCount results are returned to the

user.

The findInFiles function has now an alias function named fif.
Since I most often use the findInFiles function to search in R files, I

added the function fifR which is the same as findInFiles with the

extensions argument set to "R".

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("findInFiles", 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("stla/findInFiles")

Development version from stla/findInFiles. 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-findinfiles

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-findInFiles

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-findInFiles

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 0.5.0

READMEYes · 89 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,374 · ~21/day · ~624/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45330 days

1.2K90 days

7.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on67 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

stla/findinfiles ↗Account: stla

12Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

81Commits

1Commit identities

rhtmlwidgets

81 commits · Last activity 2024-04-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-04-24 · 122026-07-07 · 12

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/stla/findinfiles 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

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing findInFiles adds 46 packages (25 with compiled code, 43 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

crayon htmlwidgets shiny stringi stringr tibbleutilsvctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

fs shinyAce shinyFiles shinyjqui shinyvalidate shinyWidgets

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Stéphane Laurent

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Rob Burns

Contributor, Copyright holder

'ansi-to-html' library

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.0Latest
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2024-04-28 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
fif, fifR
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.4.0
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2022-04-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
shinyFIF
0.3.0
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2021-08-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
FIF2tibble
0.2.0
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2021-07-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
FIF2dataframe
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.2
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2020-11-16 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2020-10-23 · diff ↗
0.1.0
record
2020-10-22
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-10-22
Total releases: 7 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 35 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("findInFiles")

Format

Laurent, S., & Burns, R. (2024). findInFiles: Find Pattern in Files (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.findInFiles

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for findInFiles version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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