clipr

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew LincolnFirst published 2015-09-0216 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Simple utility functions to read from and write to the Windows, OS X, and X11 clipboards.

Install

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

install.packages("clipr", 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("mdlincoln/clipr")

Development version from mdlincoln/clipr. 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-clipr

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-clipr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.51

8.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-06-12
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WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-22
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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ERROR2026-05-20
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 225 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 79%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

8.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #112 · ~23.2K/day · ~705.3K/mo

Releases R versions

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572.6K30 days

1.9M90 days

8.5M1 year

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Also on130K r2u118 autocran939.1K conda_forge12.3K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ mdlincoln/clipr

153Stars

27Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

16Releases

430Commits

12Contributors

clipboardrstats

430 commits · Last activity 2026-05-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-12 · 1502026-07-07 · 153

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mdlincoln/clipr on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr knitr rmarkdown rstudioapi testthat (>= 2.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

91direct

1,768indirect

and 43 more packages.

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Matthew Lincoln

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Matthew Lincoln

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (3)

Jennifer Bryan

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Louis Maddox

Contributor

Steve Simpson

Contributor · added in 0.2.1

Package Timeline

16 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
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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0.4.1
2018-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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2017-06-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-12-02 · diff ↗
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2016-11-19 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2016-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2015-10-06 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2015-09-04 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2015-09-02
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-09-02
Total releases: 16 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 21 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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