metatools

0.3.0

Enable the Use of 'metacore' to Help Create and Check Dataset

5packages depend

23Kdownloads / year

86.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Liam HobbyFirst published 2022-04-207 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Uses the metadata information stored in 'metacore' objects to check and build metadata associated columns.

Install

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

install.packages("metatools", 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("pharmaverse/metatools")

Development version from pharmaverse/metatools. 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-metatools

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-metatools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

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

Documentation

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Downloads

23K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,256 · ~63/day · ~1.9K/mo

metatools Releases R versions

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1.2K30 days

3.9K90 days

23K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ pharmaverse/metatools

24Stars

7Forks

14Open issues

3Open PRs

6Releases

404Commits

17Contributors

404 commits · Last activity 2026-06-17 · +4.3% stars, 30d

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/pharmaverse/metatools on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

cli dplyr lifecycle magrittr metacore purrr rlang stringr tibble tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

covr haven pharmaversesdtm safetyData spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

admiralneuro admiralonco admiralvaccine pharmaverseadam pharmaversesdtm

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Liam Hobby

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Authors (6)

Liam Hobby

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Bill Denney

Author · added in 0.2.0

Christina Fillmore

Author

Tamara Senior

Author · added in 0.1.6

Mike Stackhouse

Author

Jana Stoilova

Author · added in 0.1.6

Atorus Research LLC

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

GlaxoSmithKline LLC

Funders (3)

Atorus Research LLC

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

GlaxoSmithKline LLC

Package Timeline

7 releases. R releases are shown for context.

0.3.0Latest
2026-04-28 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0
2025-07-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.6
2024-07-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.5
2023-03-13 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-03-13
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-03-01
requires archived package 'metacore'
0.1.4
2023-02-13 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2022-10-06 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.1
2022-04-20
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-04-20
Total releases: 7 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 240 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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