otel

0.2.0

OpenTelemetry R API

16packages depend

7.7Mdownloads / year

83.1%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiFirst published 2025-07-312 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs used to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis in order to understand your software's performance and behavior. This package implements the OpenTelemetry API: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/. Use this package as a dependency if you want to instrument your R package for OpenTelemetry.

Install

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

install.packages("otel", 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("r-lib/otel")

Development version from r-lib/otel. 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-otel

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-otel

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-otel

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.65

83.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 365 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

7.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #48 · ~21K/day · ~639.7K/mo

Releases R versions

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1.5M30 days

3.4M90 days

7.7M1 year

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Also on88.3K r2u1 autocran201.7K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/otel

20Stars

6Forks

12Open issues

4Open PRs

2Releases

191Commits

2Contributors

191 commits · Last activity 2026-04-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-22 · 92026-07-07 · 20

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/otel on 2026-07-31.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (2)

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Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

callr cli glue jsonlite otelsdk processx shiny spelling testthatutilswithr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

2,697indirect

callr fiery otelsdk promises reqres routr shiny shinyOAuth DBI bidux ellmer httr2 knitr mirai testthat wrswoR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

2 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
0.2.0Latest
2025-08-29 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.0
2025-07-31
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-31
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: github.com
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 71 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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