connections

0.2.1

Integrates with the 'RStudio' Connections Pane and 'pins'

1packages depend

9.4Kdownloads / year

93.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Edgar RuizFirst published 2019-10-284 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Enables 'DBI' compliant packages to integrate with the 'RStudio' connections pane, and the 'pins' package. It automates the display of schemata, tables, views, as well as the preview of the table's top 1000 records.

Install

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

install.packages("connections", 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("rstudio/connections")

Development version from rstudio/connections. 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-connections

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-connections

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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 ↗ rstudio/connections

59Stars

4Forks

10Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

127Commits

4Contributors

rdatabase-connectionconnection-panerstudiopins

127 commits · Last activity 2025-09-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/connections on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

DBImethodspins dplyr dbplyr uuid rscontract

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

RSQLite testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

2indirect

dbProject

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Edgar Ruiz

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Edgar Ruiz

Author, Maintainer

Posit Software, PBC

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Javier Luraschi

no longer listed · 0.1.1

Package Timeline

4 releases. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.1Latest
2025-09-11 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.0
2023-12-18 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-12-18
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-10-19
check problems were not corrected in time
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.1
2020-02-07 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2019-10-28
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-28
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 890 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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