whirl

0.3.2

Log Execution of Scripts

3packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

30.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Aksel ThomsenFirst published 2025-04-154 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Logging of scripts suitable for clinical trials using 'Quarto' to create nice human readable logs. 'whirl' enables execution of scripts in batch, while simultaneously creating logs for the execution of each script, and providing an overview summary log of the entire batch execution.

Install

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

install.packages("whirl", 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("novonordisk-opensource/whirl")

Development version from novonordisk-opensource/whirl. 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-whirl

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-whirl

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-whirl

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 14.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 12.68

30.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 470 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 40%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,852 · ~8/day · ~231/mo

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19430 days

65890 days

2.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ novonordisk-opensource/whirl

19Stars

3Forks

17Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

252Commits

23Contributors

License Apache-2.0 · 252 commits · Last activity 2026-07-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/novonordisk-opensource/whirl on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Automation and maintenance (2)

Dependabotpre-commit

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Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesCODEOWNERS

Git structural (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (20)

callr cli dplyr jsonlite kableExtra knitr purrr quarto R6 renv reticulate rlang sessioninfo stringr tibble unglueutilswithr yaml zephyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

ggplot2 rstudioapi testthat usethis

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

3direct

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connector connector.databricks connector.sharepoint

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Maintainer (1)

Aksel Thomsen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (9)

Aksel Thomsen

Author, Maintainer

Lovemore Gakava

Author

Cervan Girard

Author

Steffen Falgreen Larsen

Author

Oliver Lundsgaard

Author · added in 0.3.1

Skander Mulder

Author · added in 0.3.0

Vladimir Obucina

Author

Michael Svingel

Author · added in 0.3.0

Kristian Troejelsgaard

Author

Novo Nordisk A/S

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.2Latest
2026-01-21 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.1
2025-08-25 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2025-07-08 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2025-04-15
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-04-15
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 3.6 MB
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