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8.2.0

Embedded JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine for R

80packages depend
4.3Mdownloads / year
69.0%test coverage
13/13checks pass

Overview

About
Maintained by Jeroen OomsFirst published 2014-12-0861 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An R interface to V8 https://v8.dev: Google's open source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. This package can be compiled either with V8 or NodeJS when built as a shared library.

Install

Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 4.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
Code health
Yes
Tests · ratio 0.40
69.0%
Coverage · measured lines
100%
Documentation · exports
4
Dependencies · direct
Check history
  • OK2026-07-21
    13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • ERROR2026-07-18
    12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • OK2026-05-02
    13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • NOTE2026-04-23
    11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • ERROR2026-04-15
    9 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
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  • NOTE2026-03-10
    11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

Documentation
READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
0%
References docs
33%

Downloads

4.3M
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #148 · ~11.7K/day · ~355.4K/mo
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408.2K30 days
1.3M90 days
4.3M1 year
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Repository

Repository
207Stars
30Forks
19Open issues
1Open PRs
35Releases
649Commits
12Contributors
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649 commits · Last activity 2026-05-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-03-29 · 2002026-07-16 · 207

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jeroen/v8 on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)
GitHub Actions
Lint, format, editor (1)
RStudio project
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies
7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (0)
none
Imports (4)
LinkingTo (1)
Enhances (0)
none

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)
Maintainer (1)
Author, Maintainer
Authors (1)
Author, Maintainer
Contributors (2)
Contributor · added in 4.2.2
Contributor · added in 8.0.0
Package Timeline

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

  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • 8.2.0Latest
    2026-04-21 · current release · diff ↗
  • 8.1.0
    2026-04-12 · diff ↗
  • 8.0.1
    2025-10-10 · diff ↗
  • 8.0.0
    2025-09-27 · diff ↗
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    2025-09-01 · diff ↗
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    2025-08-18 · diff ↗
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    2025-07-31 · diff ↗
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    2025-06-04 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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    2025-02-03 · diff ↗
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    2024-10-12 · diff ↗
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    2024-09-20 · diff ↗
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    2024-08-16 · diff ↗
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  • R
    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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    2023-12-04 · diff ↗
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    2023-10-10 · diff ↗
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    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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    2022-11-03 · diff ↗
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    2022-08-07 · diff ↗
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    2022-05-14 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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    2022-02-07 · diff ↗
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    2021-12-23 · diff ↗
  • 3.6.0
    2021-11-10 · diff ↗
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    2021-11-03 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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    2021-05-01 · diff ↗
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    2021-04-23 · diff ↗
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    2020-11-04 · diff ↗
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    2020-10-26 · diff ↗
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    2020-10-26 · diff ↗
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    2020-10-25 · diff ↗
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    2020-05-29 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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    2020-03-14 · diff ↗
  • 3.0.1
    2020-01-22 · diff ↗
  • 3.0
    2020-01-10 · diff ↗
  • 2.3
    2019-07-02 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
  • 2.2
    2019-04-13 · diff ↗
  • 2.1
    2019-03-16 · diff ↗
  • 2.0
    2019-02-07 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
  • 1.5
    2017-04-25 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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    2017-03-30 · diff ↗
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    2017-03-18 · diff ↗
  • 1.2
    2016-11-28 · diff ↗
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    2016-07-16 · diff ↗
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    2016-06-28 · diff ↗
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    2016-06-14 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
  • 1.0.1
    2016-04-04 · diff ↗
  • 1.0.0
    2016-03-03 · diff ↗
  • 0.10
    2016-01-30 · diff ↗
  • 0.9
    2015-10-18 · diff ↗
  • 0.8
    2015-09-05 · diff ↗
  • 0.7
    2015-08-24 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
  • 0.6
    2015-04-03 · diff ↗
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    2015-02-03 · diff ↗
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    2015-01-12 · diff ↗
  • 0.3
    2014-12-22 · diff ↗
  • 0.2
    2014-12-15 · diff ↗
  • 0.1
    2014-12-08
  • R
    R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published
2014-12-08
Total releases
61 / 12 yrs
License
MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size
655 KB
Installed size
not tracked yet
With dependencies
not tracked yet
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