golem

Overview

About

Maintained by Colin FayFirst published 2019-08-0514 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An opinionated framework for building a production-ready 'Shiny' application. This package contains a series of tools for building a robust 'Shiny' application from start to finish.

Install

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

install.packages("golem", 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("ThinkR-open/golem")

Development version from ThinkR-open/golem. 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-golem

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-golem

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-golem

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.67

88.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-27
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 313 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 92%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

135K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,188 · ~370/day · ~11.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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9.5K30 days

31.8K90 days

135K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ thinkr-open/golem

943Stars

137Forks

21Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

2,018Commits

56Contributors

rshinyshiny-appsshinyappsshiny-rr-packagehacktoberfestgolemverse

2,018 commits · Last activity 2026-07-07

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 1362026-07-15 · 137

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thinkr-open/golem on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

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Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrAirVS Code

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

36 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (8)

attemptcodetoolsconfig htmltools rlang (>= 1.0.0)shinyutilsyaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 19,181 (81%)Rd 2,644 (11%)Vignettes 1,268 (5%)Other 449 (2%)Markdown 154 (1%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 19 max
Test cases: 170 / 0.67 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

89%

Expression

86.5%

Tests / Examples

88.9% / 0% ex

Functions

281 96 exported

Complexity

2.2 avg / 19 max

Call network

281 nodes / 823 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

281 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
add_r6 exp	1	0%
expect_running exp	5	0%
attachment_create_renv_for_prod	1	0%
check_attachment_installed	1	0%
check_pkgload_installed	1	0%
check_roxygen2_installed	1	0%

People & History

People (10)

Maintainer (1)

Colin Fay

Maintainer, Author

Authors (4)

Maintainer, Author

Author

Author

Author

Contributors (5)

Arthur Bréant

Contributor · added in 0.3.2

David Granjon

Contributor · added in 0.3.1

Antoine Languillaume

Contributor · added in 0.3.2

Novica Nakov

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Ilya Zarubin

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Copyright holders (1)

ThinkR

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

1.0.1Latest
2026-07-08 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.0
2026-06-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.1
2024-08-27 · diff ↗
0.5.0
2024-08-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.1
2023-06-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.0
2023-03-12 · diff ↗
0.3.5
2022-10-18 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2022-09-26 · diff ↗
0.3.3
2022-07-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.2
2022-03-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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0.3.1
2021-04-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.1
2020-03-05 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2020-03-04 · diff ↗
0.1
2019-08-05
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-05
Total releases: 14 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet