usethis: Automate Package and Project Setup

Automate package and project setup tasks that are otherwise performed manually. This includes setting up unit testing, test coverage, continuous integration, Git, 'GitHub', licenses, 'Rcpp', 'RStudio' projects, and more.

Version:	3.2.1
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1)
Imports:	cli (≥ 3.0.1), clipr (≥ 0.3.0), crayon, curl (≥ 2.7), desc (≥ 1.4.2), fs (≥ 1.3.0), gert (≥ 1.4.1), gh (≥ 1.2.1), glue (≥ 1.3.0), jsonlite, lifecycle (≥ 1.0.0), purrr, rappdirs, rlang (≥ 1.1.0), rprojroot (≥ 2.1.1), rstudioapi, stats, tools, utils, whisker, withr (≥ 2.3.0), yaml
Suggests:	covr, knitr, magick, pkgload (≥ 1.3.2.1), quarto (≥ 1.5.1), rmarkdown, roxygen2 (≥ 7.1.2), spelling (≥ 1.2), testthat (≥ 3.1.8)
Published:	2025-09-06
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.usethis
Author:	Hadley Wickham [aut], Jennifer Bryan [aut, cre], Malcolm Barrett [aut], Andy Teucher [aut], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd]
Maintainer:	Jennifer Bryan <jenny at posit.co>
BugReports:	https://github.com/r-lib/usethis/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://usethis.r-lib.org, https://github.com/r-lib/usethis
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Materials:	README, NEWS
In views:	ReproducibleResearch
CRAN checks:	usethis results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

usethis.html , usethis.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	usethis_3.2.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: usethis_3.2.1.zip, r-release: usethis_3.2.1.zip, r-oldrel: usethis_3.2.1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): usethis_3.2.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): usethis_3.2.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): usethis_3.2.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): usethis_3.2.1.tgz
Old sources:	usethis archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends:	devtools
Reverse imports:	academictwitteR, anyflights, badger, BiocBook, biocthis, BiocWorkflowTools, bootCT, buildr, cmdfun, covidsymptom, DataPackageR, DCEtool, DecomposeR, dfeR, distops, do, dockerfiler, doolkit, easysurv, ensembleTax, envsetup, epidatr, etl, exampletestr, fabR, FastUtils, fec16, fledge, flipr, froggeR, fusen, galaxias, googleAnalyticsR, hlidacr, hoopR, HubPub, iheiddown, IRTest, k5, latte, lehuynh, leprechaun, m2r, manymodelr, margaret, memes, memoiR, metabolic, methodical, mnda, moodleR, multilinguer, natmanager, OCSdata, OmopViewer, ontoFAST, OpenMindat, packagepal, packer, pathlit, personalr, phrases, pkgverse, plnr, polite, popbayes, populR, positron.tutorials, RadEro, rcompendium, rDataPipeline, readme2vignette, Revticulate, rfold, roxygen2md, rpgconn, rsf, rUM, sendgridr, SIAtools, smarter, testthis, trainR, Trendtwosub, understandBPMN, washr, wehoop, whitewater, worcs, YEAB, ymlthis
Reverse suggests:	ABCDscores, admiral.test, admiralmetabolic, admiralonco, admiralophtha, admiralvaccine, aggreCAT, AIscreenR, altdoc, ambiR, animalcules, AOUSDOHtools, available, banffIT, baseballr, baselinenowcast, BiocCheck, bmm, bodycompref, boxr, btw, bursa, butcher, campfin, canaper, canvasXpress.data, caretEnsemble, causens, cfbfastR, cffr, checkhelper, ciecl, circle, cleanr, clustifyrdatahub, codemetar, CongreveLamsdell2016, connector, cosmicsig, cossonet, coursekata, CrossClustering, ctrialsgov, datacutr, date4ts, deeptimedata, denvax, digiRhythm, diseasystore, DOPE, dpkg, drake, duckplyr, dwctaxon, dynamicpv, EDCimport, electivity, EpidigiR, epigraphdb, fakemake, FastRet, fastRhockey, favawesome, FedData, figma, flir, framework, freshr, gateR, GDPuc, GenomicSuperSignature, gghourglass, ggsced, ggsegmentedtotalbar, ghclass, golem, googleAuthR, googleCloudStorageR, gutenbergr, hardhat, hdImpute, hopit, hyd1d, ibawds, idmc, imgrec, interfacer, ISCAM, izmir, KMunicate, LegATo, LLMAgentR, lterdatasampler, lvmisc, MaddisonData, mapgl, maxRgain, mcradds, mctq, metabodecon, MetaScope, mikropml, mmaqshiny, MNormTest, mockr, Modstrings, MSEtool, multiDoE, multiSA, mvgam, N2H4, naijR, NBDCtools, ndi, nixtlar, oddsapiR, OmopSketch, ompBAM, packager, pacta.multi.loanbook, pakret, Path.Analysis, peakCombiner, Pedixplorer, pharmaverseadam, pharmaverseraw, pharmaversesdtm, PhenotypeR, pkgload, poLCAParallel, precommit, primarycensored, psborrow2, Quartet, RAQSAPI, RcensusPkg, RCNA, reactR, readMDTable, ready4, restatis, ReviewR, rextendr, riskclustr, rixpress, rlang, robnptests, romic, Rparadox, rsimsum, rspacer, rstantools, Rsubbotools, rtlr, rxode2, rYWAASB, safetyGraphics, SAMtool, saros.base, scaper, SeedMaker, shinytest2, sinew, smdi, SomaDataIO, somaticflags, SPECK, stringfish, stRoke, SuperCellCyto, targets, testthat, theorytools, tidysynthesis, tidytlg, tidytuesdayR, tqk, TractorTsbox, transltr, TreatmentPatterns, tuberculosis, tugboat, turkeyelections, USgrid, vegawidget, vembedr, vismeteor, volcano3D, volker, WaveST, weatherOz, webchem, whirl, xcore, yfinancer, ypr, zebu, zephyr

Linking:

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