Contributors

The code of conduct governs all forms of participation in the R-multiverse project, including package contributions, issues, discussions, and the development of infrastructure. Administrators, moderators, and contributors are all subject to its terms.

How to register a package with R-multiverse

The one-time registration process

  1. Navigate to https://github.com/r-multiverse/contributions.
  2. Open a GitHub pull request to add one or more listings to the packages folder.

Watch this 1-minute video to learn how:

Requirements for registration

Each package listing is a simple text file:

  1. The file name is the package name.
  2. The file contains a single line with the package URL. Example: https://github.com/r-lib/gh

The URL in (2) must be the true and authentic GitHub/GitLab location of the package according to its owners, or an active mirror of the true location.

Prerequisites for packages
  1. The package source code must exist in a public GitHub or GitLab repository with the DESCRIPTION file at the root of the project. Example: https://github.com/r-lib/gh.
  2. The repository must host a GitHub release or GitLab release for the latest version intended for distribution. Example: https://github.com/r-lib/gh/releases/tag/v1.4.0. Pre-releases (GitHub) and upcoming releases (GitLab) are ignored to ensure each release has the full endorsement of its maintainer.

In rare cases, the package may be in a subdirectory of a GitHub repo. In these cases, your text file may instead contain a JSON list with fields package, url, subdir, and branch, and the branch field must be "*release". Example:

{
  "package": "arrow",
  "url": "https://github.com/apache/arrow",
  "subdir": "r",
  "branch": "*release"
}

How to create a badge

R-multiverse status

To add a dynamic ‘R-multiverse’ badge for package readme files, like the one above, copy the following markdown snippet, replacing ‘pkgNAME’ with the actual package name in both places it appears:

[![R-multiverse status](https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.r-multiverse.org%2Fapi%2Fpackages%2FpkgNAME&query=%24.Version&label=r-multiverse)](https://community.r-multiverse.org/pkgNAME)

How to edit or remove packages

To edit or remove one or more packages, submit a pull request to edit the files in the packages folder. To protect the package ecosystem, these kinds of pull requests are always flagged for manual review and never automatically merged.

How pull requests are reviewed

An automated process periodically scans each new pull request to https://github.com/r-multiverse/contributions. Depending on the results of the automated checks, the bot automatically merges the pull request, closes it, or flags it for manual review. In the latter case, an R-multiverse moderator will manually review your pull request and contact you if there are questions. Please see our review policy for more information about the process.

How the R-multiverse universe is built

Periodically, a GitHub Actions workflow collects all the packages and URLs from the packages folder and builds the packages.json file for the universe at https://github.com/r-multiverse/community. https://community.r-multiverse.org periodically refreshes to include the latest release of each package in packages.json.

Ownership and attribution

Each submitted package URL must be authentic and genuine. The URL must be the true location of the package according to its true owners. If a URL in https://github.com/r-multiverse/contributions/tree/main/packages points to the wrong place, please submit a pull request to https://github.com/r-multiverse/contributions to fix the URL. If you do not know the correct URL or do not want to submit a pull request, please open an issue at https://github.com/r-multiverse/help/issues.

Getting help

Please report bugs to https://github.com/r-multiverse/help/issues and send other feedback and questions to https://github.com/r-multiverse/help/discussions. Please note that https://github.com/r-multiverse/contributions can only accept pull requests to add or modify package entries.