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typetracer

Trace Function Parameter Types

v0.2.3 · Dec 3, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

The 'R' language includes a set of defined types, but the language itself is "absurdly dynamic" (Turcotte & Vitek (2019) <doi:10.1145/3340670.3342426>), and lacks any way to specify which types are expected by any expression. The 'typetracer' package enables code to be traced to extract detailed information on the properties of parameters passed to 'R' functions. 'typetracer' can trace individual functions or entire packages.

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

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OK r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

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OK r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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OK r-devel-macos-arm64

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OK r-devel-windows-x86_64

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ERROR r-oldrel-macos-arm64

tests

  Running ‘testthat.R’ [3s/3s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Complete output:
  > library (testthat)
  > library (typetracer)
  > 
  > test_check ("typetracer")
  * installing *binary* package ‘rematch’ ...
  * DONE (rematch)
  Saving _problems/test-trace-package-37.R
  * installing *binary* package ‘rematch’ ...
  * DONE (rematch)
  Saving _problems/test-trace-package-57.R
  * installing *source* package ‘rematch’ ...
  ** using non-staged installation
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** tests
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  ** help
  *** installing help indices
    converting help for package ‘rematch’
      re_match                                example
  ** building package indices
  ** testing if installed package can be loaded
  * DONE (rematch)
  * installing *source* package ‘rematch’ ...
  ** using non-staged installation
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** tests
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  ** help
  *** installing help indices
    converting help for package ‘rematch’
      re_match                                example
  ** building package indices
  ** testing if installed package can be loaded
  * DONE (rematch)
  [ FAIL 2 | WARN 0 | SKIP 2 | PASS 45 ]
  
  ══ Skipped tests (2) ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
  • On CRAN (2): 'test-trace-fns.R:4:1', 'test-utils.R:47:1'
  
  ══ Failed tests ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
  ── Failure ('test-trace-package.R:37:5'): trace installed package ──────────────
  Expected `all(grepl("\\.Rd$", x0$source_file_name))` to be TRUE.
  Differences:
  `actual`:   FALSE
  `expected`: TRUE 
  
  ── Failure ('test-trace-package.R:57:5'): trace installed package ──────────────
  Expected `all(grepl("\\.Rd$", x0$source_file_name))` to be TRUE.
  Differences:
  `actual`:   FALSE
  `expected`: TRUE 
  
  
  [ FAIL 2 | WARN 0 | SKIP 2 | PASS 45 ]
  Error:
  ! Test failures.
  Execution halted
OK r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

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OK r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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OK r-patched-linux-x86_64

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OK r-release-linux-x86_64

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OK r-release-macos-arm64

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OK r-release-macos-x86_64

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OK r-release-windows-x86_64

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Check History

ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 9, 2026
ERROR r-oldrel-macos-arm64

tests

  Running ‘testthat.R’ [3s/3s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Complete output:
  > library (testthat)
  > library (typetracer)
  > 
  > test_check ("typetracer")
  * installing *binary* package ‘rematch’ ...
  * DONE (rematch)
  Saving _problems/test-trace-package-37.R
  * installing *binary* package ‘rematch’ ...
  * DONE (rematch)
  Saving _problems/test-trace-package-57.R
  * installing *source* package ‘rematch’ ...
  ** using non-staged installation
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** te

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Version History

new 0.2.3 Mar 9, 2026