trackdown

1.1.1

Collaborative Editing of Rmd (or Rnw) Documents in Google Drive

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

58.1%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Claudio Zandonella CallegherFirst published 2021-08-062 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Collaborative writing and editing of R Markdown (or Sweave) documents. The local .Rmd (or .Rnw) is uploaded as a plain-text file to Google Drive. By taking advantage of the easily readable Markdown (or LaTeX) syntax and the well-known online interface offered by Google Docs, collaborators can easily contribute to the writing and editing process. After integrating all authors’ contributions, the final document can be downloaded and rendered locally.

Install

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

install.packages("trackdown", 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("claudiozandonella/trackdown")

Development version from claudiozandonella/trackdown. 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-trackdown

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-trackdown

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-trackdown

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 7.84

58.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 916 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,909 · ~9/day · ~284/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ claudiozandonella/trackdown

232Stars

15Forks

26Open issues

1Open PRs

7Releases

416Commits

12Contributors

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License GPL-3.0 · 416 commits · Last activity 2023-05-29 · +0.4% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-22 · 2242026-07-16 · 232

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/claudiozandonella/trackdown on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

renv

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (3)

cli googledrive rmarkdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

covr devtools gargle knitr pagedown sodium testthat (>= 3.0.0)vcr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Claudio Zandonella Callegher

Author, Maintainer

Authors (5)

Claudio Zandonella Callegher

Author, Maintainer

Filippo Gambarota

Author

Emily Kothe

Author

Mathew Ling

Author

Janosch Linkersdörfer

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-06
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 2.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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