rappdirs
0.3.4Application Directories: Determine Where to Save Data, Caches, and Logs
131packages depend
12.6Mdownloads / year
96.6%test coverage
12/13checks pass
Overview
About
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.
Install
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
- ERROR2026-04-2711 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
- OK2026-03-1014 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
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #60 · ~34.6K/day · ~1.1M/mo
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967.9K30 days
3.2M90 days
12.6M1 year
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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
Forks over time
2024-08-29 · 142026-07-07 · 15
Releases over time
2021-01-28 · 42026-07-07 · 5
Issues over time
2025-05-07 · 62026-07-07 · 6
PRs over time
2025-05-05 · 02026-07-07 · 0
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.
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README.Rmd
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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
Reverse dependencies
131direct
3,893indirect
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and 83 more packages.
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People & History
People (9)
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Translator, Maintainer, Copyright holder
Authors (3)
Contributors (3)
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Copyright holder
Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.4
Funders (1)
Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.4
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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.
- RR 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
- 0.3.4Latest
- RR 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
- RR 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
- RR 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
- RR 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
- RR 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
- 0.3.32021-01-31 · diff ↗
- 0.3.22021-01-27 · diff ↗
- RR 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
- RR 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
- RR 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
- RR 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
- RR 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
- 0.3.12016-03-28 · diff ↗
- RR 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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- 0.32014-09-02
- RR 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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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