RcppDate

0.0.7

'date' C++ Header Library for Date and Time Functionality

2packages depend

128Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelFirst published 2020-03-247 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A header-only C++ library is provided with support for dates, time zones, ISO weeks, Julian dates, and Islamic dates. 'date' offers extensive date and time functionality for the C++11, C++14 and C++17 standards and was written by Howard Hinnant and released under the MIT license. A slightly modified version has been accepted (along with 'tz.h') as part of C++20. This package regroups all header files from the upstream repository by Howard Hinnant so that other R packages can use them in their C++ code. At present, few of the types have explicit 'Rcpp' wrappers though these may be added as needed.

Install

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

install.packages("RcppDate", 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("eddelbuettel/rcppdate")

Development version from eddelbuettel/rcppdate. 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-rcppdate

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-RcppDate

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-RcppDate

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests

not tracked

Coverage

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 174 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 0%

Downloads

128K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,125 · ~351/day · ~10.7K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ eddelbuettel/rcppdate

12Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

36Commits

1Contributors

36 commits · Last activity 2026-07-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 112026-07-07 · 12

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppdate on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

Rcpp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

7indirect

dtts nanotime

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

Howard Hinnant

Author · added in 0.0.4

Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.0.7Latest
2026-07-28 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.6
2025-05-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.0.5
2025-03-06 · diff ↗
0.0.4
2024-10-14 · diff ↗
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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
0.0.3
2021-05-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.0.2
2021-01-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.0.1
2020-03-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-24
Total releases: 7 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 89 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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