babelwhale

1.2.0

Talking to 'Docker' and 'Singularity' Containers

1packages depend

11Kdownloads / year

45.3%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Robrecht CannoodtFirst published 2019-07-096 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a unified interface to interact with 'docker' and 'singularity' containers. You can execute a command inside a container, mount a volume or copy a file.

Install

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

install.packages("babelwhale", 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("dynverse/babelwhale")

Development version from dynverse/babelwhale. 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-babelwhale

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

# 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-babelwhale

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

Downloads

11K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,957 · ~30/day · ~919/mo

babelwhale Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dynverse/babelwhale

24Stars

6Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

183Commits

3Contributors

183 commits · Last activity 2023-12-27

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dynverse/babelwhale on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (9)

crayon dplyr fs dynutils processx purrrutilsdigest glue

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

dynwrap

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Robrecht Cannoodt

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Robrecht Cannoodt

Author, Maintainer

Joel Nitta

Author · added in 1.1.0

Wouter Saelens

Author

Package Timeline

6 releases. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.0Latest
2023-07-15 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-07-15
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-07-09
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.0
2022-08-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.3
2021-06-25 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2021-06-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.1
2019-10-03 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2019-07-09
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-09
Total releases: 6 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 369 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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