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sysreqr: Preflight Checks for 'R' Package System Requirements

Helps users on 'Linux' (and, where applicable, 'macOS') find the system packages they need before installing 'R' packages from source. Queries maintained system requirement sources, reports missing system packages, and generates installation commands, 'Dockerfile' snippets, 'GitHub Actions' steps, administrator request templates, and diagnostic reports from failed installation logs.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr
Published: 2026-06-11
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.sysreqr
Author: Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi <a.sofimahmudi at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/choxos/sysreqR/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/choxos/sysreqR
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: sysreqr citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: sysreqr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: sysreqr.html , sysreqr.pdf
Vignettes: Diagnosing failed R package installations (source, R code)
Docker and CI workflows (source, R code)
FAQ and troubleshooting (source, R code)
GNU/Linux fundamentals for R users (source, R code)
Preflight setup before installing R packages (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: sysreqr_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: sysreqr_0.1.0.zip, r-release: sysreqr_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: sysreqr_0.1.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): sysreqr_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): sysreqr_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): sysreqr_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): sysreqr_0.1.0.tgz

Linking:

Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sysreqr to link to this page.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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