optparse

1.8.2

Command Line Option Parser

15packages depend

464.9Kdownloads / year

98.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Trevor L. DavisFirst published 2009-11-0322 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A command line parser inspired by Python's 'optparse' library to be used with Rscript to write "#!" shebang scripts that accept short and long flag/options.

Install

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

install.packages("optparse", 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("trevorld/r-optparse")

Development version from trevorld/r-optparse. 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-optparse

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-optparse

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Check history

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

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ trevorld/r-optparse

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10Releases

178Commits

7Contributors

License GPL-2.0 · 178 commits · Last activity 2026-05-09 · +1.3% stars, 30d

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cran-comments.md

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown stringr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

15direct

0indirect

RIbench dynafluxr fmriqa numbat plinkQC SQLFormatteR TexExamRandomizer VIProDesign W4MRUtils artma enveomics.R geeLite gwas2crispr rbiom twbparser

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Trevor L. Davis

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.7.5

Authors (2)

Trevor L. Davis

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.7.5

Allen Day

Author · added in 1.6.0

Contributors (7)

Python Software Foundation

Contributor · added in 1.6.0

Gyu Jin Choi

Contributor · added in 1.6.0

Rich FitzJohn

Contributor · added in 1.6.0

Peter Humburg

Contributor · added in 1.3.2

Steve Lianoglou

Contributor · added in 1.6.0

Kirill Müller

Contributor · added in 1.3.0

Jim Nikelski

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Listed in earlier versions (13)

unit tests ported from Allen Day's ``getopt`` package. Based on the optparse Python library by the Python Software Foundation.

no longer listed · 0.8 to 0.9.1

Trevor Davis. Some documentation

no longer listed · 0.9.0 to 0.9.5

some documentation

no longer listed · 0.8

Trevor Davis. "getopt" function

no longer listed · 0.8

unit tests ported from Allen Day's ``getopt`` package. Based on the optparse Python library by the Python Software Foundation. Contributions from Steve Lianoglou

no longer listed · 0.9.4 to 0.9.5

Jim Nikelski.

no longer listed · 0.9.4 to 1.0.2

examples ported from Allen Day's ``getopt`` package. Some documentation from the optparse Python module by the Python Software Foundation. Contributions from Steve Lianoglou

no longer listed · 1.0.0

Trevor L Davis. Some documentation

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.4.4

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-11-03
Total releases: 22 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 41 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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