skeletor

1.0.4

An R Package Skeleton Generator

0packages depend

7.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Neal RichardsonFirst published 2016-12-303 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A tool for bootstrapping new packages with useful defaults, including a test suite outline that passes checks and helpers for running tests, checking test coverage, building vignettes, and more. Package skeletons it creates are set up for pushing your package to 'GitHub' and using other hosted services for building and test automation.

Install

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

install.packages("skeletor", 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("nealrichardson/skeletor")

Development version from nealrichardson/skeletor. 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-skeletor

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-skeletor

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-skeletor

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 50 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.44

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

None

Vignettes

Yes

README

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

7.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,270 · ~22/day · ~661/mo

skeletor By stream Releases R versions

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61230 days

2K90 days

7.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nealrichardson/skeletor

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0Open PRs

0Releases

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 388 (87%)Rd 59 (13%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 9.0 median / 10 max
Test cases: 33 / 1.44 per code line
Documented parameters: 100%

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

2 2 exported

Complexity

9 avg / 10 max

Call network

2 nodes / 0 edges

Test coverage has not been measured for this package yet; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Neal Richardson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Neal Richardson

Author, Maintainer

Release timeline

3 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 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0.4Latest
2017-04-09 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.2
2017-01-01 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2016-12-30
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-30
Total releases: 3 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 11 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet