hfhub

0.1.2

Hugging Face Hub Interface

3packages depend

4.6Kdownloads / year

76.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Tomasz KalinowskiFirst published 2023-06-283 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functionality to download and cache files from 'Hugging Face Hub' https://huggingface.co/models. Uses the same caching structure so files can be shared between different client libraries.

Install

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

install.packages("hfhub", 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("mlverse/hfhub")

Development version from mlverse/hfhub. 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-hfhub

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

# 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-hfhub

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Downloads

4.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,536 · ~13/day · ~380/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mlverse/hfhub

20Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

3Releases

56Commits

4Contributors

56 commits · Last activity 2026-04-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mlverse/hfhub on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

httr filelock fs cli withr curl glue urltools rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat jsonlite

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

chatterbox whisper tok

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Tomasz Kalinowski

Contributor, Maintainer · added in 0.1.2

Authors (1)

Daniel Falbel

Author

Contributors (2)

Tomasz Kalinowski

Contributor, Maintainer · added in 0.1.2

Christophe Regouby

Contributor · added in 0.1.2

Posit Software, PBC

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Posit

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.1.1

Package Timeline

3 releases. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.2Latest
2026-04-15 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.1
2023-08-18 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2023-06-28
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-28
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 7.7 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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