gitignore

0.1.8

Create Useful .gitignore Files for your Project

0packages depend

8.2Kdownloads / year

91.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Philippe MassicotteFirst published 2019-06-287 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Simple interface to query gitignore.io to fetch gitignore templates that can be included in the .gitignore file. More than 450 templates are currently available.

Install

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

install.packages("gitignore", 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("ropensci/gitignore")

Development version from ropensci/gitignore. 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-gitignore

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-gitignore

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-gitignore

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.64

91.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-05-21
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-20
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

8.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,724 · ~22/day · ~684/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/gitignore

35Stars

5Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

177Commits

9Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 177 commits · Last activity 2024-11-01

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/gitignore on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Philippe Massicotte

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Philippe Massicotte

Author, Maintainer

Reviewers (2)

Amanda Dobbyn

Reviewer

Mauro Lepore

Reviewer

Package Timeline

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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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2019-07-29 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-07-29
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-07-16
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0.1.2
2019-06-28

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-06-28
Total releases: 7 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 23 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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