sinew

0.4.0

Package Development Documentation and Namespace Management

1packages depend

10.3Kdownloads / year

21.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jonathan SidiFirst published 2017-05-037 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Manage package documentation and namespaces from the command line. Programmatically attach namespaces in R and Rmd script, populates 'Roxygen2' skeletons with information scraped from within functions and populate the Imports field of the DESCRIPTION file.

Install

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

install.packages("sinew", 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("yonicd/sinew")

Development version from yonicd/sinew. 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-sinew

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-sinew

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 7.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.18

21.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-13
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-12
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 81%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 74%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

10.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,304 · ~28/day · ~859/mo

Releases R versions

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41330 days

2.1K90 days

10.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ yonicd/sinew

165Stars

14Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

245Commits

26Contributors

245 commits · Last activity 2024-02-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-09-06 · 1622026-07-07 · 165

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/yonicd/sinew on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (9)

rstudioapiutilstoolssos stringi yaml crayon cli rematch2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

rcmdcheck git2r shiny miniUI withr usethis fs details roxygen2 testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

z22

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Jonathan Sidi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jonathan Sidi

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (4)

Lorenzo Busetto

Contributor · added in 0.3.8

Anton Grishin

Contributor · added in 0.3.8

Stephen Holsenbeck

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Alexey Shiklomanov

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Listed in earlier versions (11)

"Busetto"