distro

0.1.1

Linux Distribution Properties

1packages depend

114.4Kdownloads / year

90.2%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Neal RichardsonFirst published 2020-11-092 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

In order to provide unified access to Linux distribution details in R, this package wraps the various files and commands that may exist on a system. It is similar in spirit to the 'lsb_release' command and the 'Python' package of the same name.

Install

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

install.packages("distro", 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("nealrichardson/distro")

Development version from nealrichardson/distro. 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-distro

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-distro

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-distro

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 51 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.84

90.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 276 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

114.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,384 · ~313/day · ~9.5K/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nealrichardson/distro

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

9Commits

2Contributors

9 commits · Last activity 2025-09-14

Stars over time

2021-08-16 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nealrichardson/distro on 2026-07-31.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Neal Richardson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Neal Richardson

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

2 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
0.1.0
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-09
Total releases: 2 / 6 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2.0)
Download size: 5.3 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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