blockr

0.1.0

A Block-Based Framework for Data Manipulation and Visualization

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1.4Kdownloads / year

87.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicolas BennettFirst published 2026-01-121 releasesCRAN page ↗

A framework for building interactive dashboards and document-based reports. Underlying data manipulation and visualization is possible using a web-based point and click user interface.

Install

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

install.packages("blockr", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-blockr

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-blockr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bristolmyerssquibb/blockr

60Stars

5Forks

10Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

1,054Commits

6Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 1,054 commits · Last activity 2026-06-30 · +5.3% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

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Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

blockr.core blockr.dock blockr.dag blockr.dplyr blockr.ggplot blockr.ioutilscli rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat quarto knitr shinytest2 withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Nicolas Bennett

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Author

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Contributors (1)

Karma Tarap

Contributor

Bristol Myers Squibb

Funders (1)

Bristol Myers Squibb

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-12
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 178 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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