librarian

1.8.1

Install, Update, Load Packages from CRAN, 'GitHub', and 'Bioconductor' in One Step

1packages depend

25.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Desi QuintansFirst published 2018-07-084 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Automatically install, update, and load 'CRAN', 'GitHub', and 'Bioconductor' packages in a single function call. By accepting bare unquoted names for packages, it's easy to add or remove packages from the list.

Install

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

install.packages("librarian", 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("DesiQuintans/librarian")

Development version from DesiQuintans/librarian. 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-librarian

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-librarian

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-librarian

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Yes

Vignettes

Yes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Downloads

25.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,596 · ~69/day · ~2.1K/mo

Releases R versions

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89130 days

3.1K90 days

25.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ desiquintans/librarianArchived

54Stars

1Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

159Commits

2Contributors

rcranr-package

License GPL-3.0 · 159 commits · Last activity 2024-12-28

Stars over time

2025-04-02 · 542026-07-07 · 54

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

BiocManager remotestoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

upstartr

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 1,360 (55%)Rd 910 (37%)Vignettes 200 (8%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 13 max
Documented parameters: 100%

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

25 9 exported

Complexity

3.2 avg / 13 max

Call network

25 nodes / 35 edges

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Desi Quintans

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Desi Quintans

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

4 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
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-08
Total releases: 4 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 41 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet