R Observatory: Metrics for codename version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

codename

0.5.0Package record

Generation of Code Names for Organizations, People, Projects, and Whatever Else

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steve MillerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

This creates code names that a user can consider for their organizations, their projects, themselves, people in their organizations or projects, or whatever else. The user can also supply a numeric seed (and even a character seed) for maximum reproducibility. Use is simple and the code names produced come in various types too, contingent on what the user may be desiring as a code name or nickname.

Changes in 0.5.0

codename_message() will now display the version of R for the user as well. This should add in greater transparency in the event R changes its seed generator again.
Added nicka_blocks to data sets available in the package.
Added 'nicka' type to codename() and variety_pack().
Updated documentation for codename() and variety_pack().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("codename", 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("svmiller/codename")

Development version from svmiller/codename. 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-codename

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-codename

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-codename

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: 52 s · r-release-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 · 387 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,130 · ~8/day · ~249/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29130 days

78290 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on86 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

svmiller/codename ↗Account: svmiller

25Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

48Commits

2Commit identities

codenamereproducibilitywu-tang

48 commits · Last activity 2023-05-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 126
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-11 · 202026-07-07 · 25

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/svmiller/codename on 2026-10-25.

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-05-26

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing codename adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

tibble

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Steve Miller

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
0.5.0Latest
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2023-02-06 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.4.0
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2021-09-07 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2021-06-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.0
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2021-05-10 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2021-04-14
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-04-14
Total releases: 5 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 48 KB / 8 files
Download size: 59 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("codename")

Format

Miller, S. (2023). codename: Generation of Code Names for Organizations, People, Projects, and Whatever Else (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.codename

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 codename version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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