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0.3.4

Application Directories: Determine Where to Save Data, Caches, and Logs

131packages depend
12.6Mdownloads / year
96.6%test coverage
12/13checks pass

Overview

About
Maintained by Hadley WickhamFirst published 2014-09-025 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An easy way to determine which directories on the users computer you should use to save data, caches and logs. A port of Python's 'Appdirs' (https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs) to R.

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Health

CRAN checks
1ERROR12OK
Failing flavors
  • ERROR r-release-macos-arm64
Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
Code health
Yes
Tests · ratio 0.53
96.6%
Coverage · measured lines
100%
Documentation · exports
0
Dependencies · direct
Check history
  • ERROR2026-04-27
    11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • OK2026-03-10
    14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 199 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
0%
References docs
0%

Downloads

12.6M
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Rank #60 · ~34.6K/day · ~1.1M/mo
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Repository

Repository
92Stars
15Forks
6Open issues
0Open PRs
5Releases
178Commits
8Contributors
rappdir
178 commits · Last activity 2026-01-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-09 · 882026-07-07 · 92

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/rappdirs on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)
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CRAN release process (2)
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Docs source (1)
README.Rmd
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Coverage (1)
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Dependencies

Declared dependencies
4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (1)
R >= 4.1
Imports (0)
none
LinkingTo (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)
Maintainer (1)
Translator, Maintainer, Copyright holder
Authors (3)
Translator, Author
Contributors (3)
Contributor
Contributor
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Copyright holders (3)
Translator, Maintainer, Copyright holder
Copyright holder
Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.4
Funders (1)
Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.4
Translators (2)
Translator, Maintainer, Copyright holder
Translator, Author
Listed in earlier versions (1)
no longer listed · 0.3 to 0.3.3
Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • 0.3.4Latest
    2026-01-17 · current release · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
  • R
    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
  • R
    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
  • R
    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
  • 0.3.3
    2021-01-31 · diff ↗
  • 0.3.2
    2021-01-27 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
  • R
    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
  • R
    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
  • R
    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
  • R
    R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
  • 0.3.1
    2016-03-28 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
Show 2 earlier events
  • 0.3
    2014-09-02
  • R
    R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published
2014-09-02
Total releases
5 / 12 yrs
License
MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R
≥ 4.1
Download size
11 KB
Installed size
not tracked yet
With dependencies
not tracked yet
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