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archive

1.1.13

Multi-Format Archive and Compression Support

16packages depend

200.6Kdownloads / year

83.8%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiFirst published 2021-06-3018 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Bindings to 'libarchive' http://www.libarchive.org the Multi-format archive and compression library. Offers R connections and direct extraction for many archive formats including 'tar', 'ZIP', '7-zip', 'RAR', 'CAB' and compression formats including 'gzip', 'bzip2', 'compress', 'lzma' and 'xz'.

Install

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

install.packages("archive", 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("r-lib/archive")

Development version from r-lib/archive. 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-archive

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-archive

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

4ERROR9OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
ERROR r-patched-linux-x86_64
ERROR r-release-linux-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.12

83.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-07-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 180 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

200.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,028 · ~550/day · ~16.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

11.2K30 days

41.1K90 days

200.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/archive

148Stars

18Forks

12Open issues

3Open PRs

15Releases

442Commits

12Contributors

libarchivercompressionconnections

442 commits · Last activity 2026-07-15 · +0.7% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-17 · 1452026-07-07 · 148

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/archive on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (4)

cli glue rlang tibble

LinkingTo (1)

cli

Suggests (2)

covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.1.3

Authors (2)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.1.3

Author

Funders (1)

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.13Latest
2026-04-12 · current release · diff ↗
1.1.12.1
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.12
2025-03-21 · diff ↗
1.1.11
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1.1.10
2024-11-08 · diff ↗
1.1.9
2024-09-12 · diff ↗
1.1.8
2024-04-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.7
2023-12-11 · diff ↗
1.1.6
2023-09-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-05-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.4
2022-01-30 · diff ↗

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1.1.3
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1.1.0
2021-08-05 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2021-07-16 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2021-07-09 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2021-06-30
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-06-30
Total releases: 18 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 142 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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