devtools

Overview

About

Maintained by Jennifer BryanFirst published 2011-06-2263 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Collection of package development tools.

Install

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

install.packages("devtools", 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/devtools")

Development version from r-lib/devtools. 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-devtools

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-devtools

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

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

# 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-devtools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.37

41.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

21

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-07-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-07-04
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-12
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-11
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 914 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 21%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #190 · ~9.2K/day · ~280.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

281.7K30 days

923.3K90 days

3.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on115.3K r2u177 autocran213.3K conda_forge1.3K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/devtools

2,514Stars

762Forks

3Open issues

3Open PRs

39Releases

3,589Commits

174Contributors

rpackage-creation

3,589 commits · Last activity 2026-04-30 · +0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-22 · 2,4372026-07-07 · 2,514

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/devtools on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

38 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1usethis

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (17)

BiocManager callr covr curl digest DT foghorn (>= 1.4.2)gh httr2 knitr lintr quarto remotes rmarkdown rstudioapi spelling xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

566direct

11indirect

and 518 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 6,657 (69%)Rd 2,040 (21%)Markdown 527 (5%)Other 231 (2%)Vignettes 145 (2%)YAML 1 (0%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S32

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 23 max
Test cases: 80 / 0.37 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

41%

Expression

41.8%

Tests / Examples

41.4% / 0% ex

Functions

220 69 exported

Complexity

2.6 avg / 23 max

Call network

220 nodes / 288 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

220 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
bash exp	1	0%
build exp	2	0%
build_site exp	1	0%
check exp	9	0%
check_built exp	9	0%
check_mac_devel exp	1	0%

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Jennifer Bryan

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.4.3

Authors (4)

Jennifer Bryan

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.4.3

Winston Chang

Author · added in 0.8

Jim Hester

Author · added in 1.13.5

Hadley Wickham

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.4.6

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.4.6

Listed in earlier versions (3)

R Core team

no longer listed · 0.8 to 2.3.2

Hadley Wickham <hadley@rstudio.com> [aut, cre] Winston Chang [aut]

no longer listed · 1.6 to 1.6.1

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.7.0 to 2.4.5

Package Timeline

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

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-06-22
Total releases: 63 / 15 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 387 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet