feather

0.4.0

R Bindings to the Feather 'API'

5packages depend

825.2Kdownloads / year

66.7%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamFirst published 2016-05-188 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Read and write feather files, a lightweight binary columnar data store designed for maximum speed.

Install

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

install.packages("feather", 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("wesm/feather")

Development version from wesm/feather. 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-feather

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-feather

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-feather

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: 1.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 3.06

66.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-12
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-05-11
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 41 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

825.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #684 · ~2.3K/day · ~68.8K/mo

Releases R versions

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18.5K30 days

84.6K90 days

825.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ wesm/feather

2,756Stars

165Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

149Commits

32Contributors

License Apache-2.0 · 149 commits · Last activity 2025-12-08 · -0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-21 · 2,7352026-07-26 · 2,756

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/wesm/feather on 2026-07-31.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

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Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

LevelDB Authors

Contributor

RStudio

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Feather developers

no longer listed · 0.0.1 to 0.3.5

Google

no longer listed · 0.0.1 to 0.3.5

Package Timeline

8 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
0.3.5
2019-09-15 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2019-09-03 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.3
2019-03-27 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2019-01-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.1
2016-11-09 · diff ↗

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0.3.0
2016-08-25 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-05-18
Total releases: 8 / 10 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Download size: 8.3 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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