needs

0.0.3

Attaches and Installs Packages

0packages depend

10.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Josh KatzFirst published 2015-12-153 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A simple function for easier package loading and auto-installation.

Install

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

install.packages("needs")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

pak::pak("joshkatz/needs")

Development version from joshkatz/needs. Requires the pak package.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-needs

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-needs

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

sudo zypper install R-needs

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

None

Vignettes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

10.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,022 · ~28/day · ~867/mo

32830 days

1.1K90 days

10.4K1 year

Also on89 r2u8 autocran

Source & community

GitHub ↗

Repository stars, issues, and contributor activity are not tracked yet.

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (1)

utils base

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code

438Lines of code

3Exported functions

Code & tests

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Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

6 3 exported

Complexity

5.5 avg / 11 max

Call network

6 nodes / 0 edges

Test coverage has not been measured for this package yet; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.

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Lowest coverage

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

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Josh Katz

Author, Maintainer

Release timeline

3 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
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.0.3Latest
2016-03-28 · current release
0.0.2
2015-12-18 · diff ↗
0.0.1
2015-12-15

Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-15
Total releases: 3 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet