rt

1.1.0

Interface to the 'Request Tracker' API

0packages depend

4.4Kdownloads / year

9.3%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Bryce MecumFirst published 2020-04-273 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a programmatic interface to the 'Request Tracker' (RT) HTTP API https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/REST. 'RT' is a popular ticket tracking system.

Install

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

install.packages("rt", 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("nceas/rt")

Development version from nceas/rt. 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-rt

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-rt

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

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-macos-arm64
NOTE r-release-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.38

9.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 410 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,241 · ~12/day · ~363/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nceas/rt

7Stars

4Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

289Commits

3Contributors

rstatsrequest-trackerapi

289 commits · Last activity 2021-06-04

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nceas/rt on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

httr stringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

askpass knitr rmarkdown testthat tibble

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Bryce Mecum

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Bryce Mecum

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Irene Steves

Contributor

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-27
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 46 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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