pkgbuild

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiFirst published 2018-06-2723 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functions used to build R packages. Locates compilers needed to build R packages on various platforms and ensures the PATH is configured appropriately so R can use them.

Install

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

install.packages("pkgbuild", 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/pkgbuild")

Development version from r-lib/pkgbuild. 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-pkgbuild

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-pkgbuild

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-pkgbuild

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.45

60.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 547 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 13%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

10.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #48 · ~29.4K/day · ~894.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2M30 days

3.3M90 days

10.7M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on117.2K r2u139 autocran305.1K conda_forge890 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/pkgbuild

77Stars

40Forks

13Open issues

1Open PRs

21Releases

385Commits

28Contributors

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385 commits · Last activity 2025-10-21

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/pkgbuild on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (5)

callr cli desc processx R6

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

covr cpp11 knitr Rcpp rmarkdown testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.1

Authors (3)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.1

Jim Hester

Author

Hadley Wickham

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.1

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.1

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.4.0

Package Timeline

23 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 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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Package metadata

First published: 2018-06-27
Total releases: 23 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 50 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet