rstudio/plumber
Turn your R code into a web API. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
70/100
- Activity 66
- Release rhythm 57
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 32.5
- age_days: 4108
- days_rel: 205
- days_push: 205
- n_releases_24m: 5
Adoption not part of the score
1438 stars · 259 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Plumber is an R package that converts annotated R functions into RESTful web API endpoints using roxygen2-style comments. It handles routing, request parsing, response serialization, and auto-generated Swagger/OpenAPI documentation.
Use cases
- expose R functions as a REST API
- serve machine learning model predictions over HTTP
- turn an R script into a web service
- build an API around R data analysis
- serve plots generated in R as images via HTTP
- deploy R code as an endpoint for other applications to call
When to avoid
- you need a high-performance, general-purpose web framework outside R
- you're building a full web application with frontend and sessions
- your team doesn't use R
- you need async or streaming-first HTTP features at large scale
Facets
library · maturity active
api-framework http-server web-framework serialization middleware web-development backend apis data-science developer-tools cross-platform r-package api-generator annotation-based rest-api swagger cran r web-server
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/rstudio/plumber · fetched 2026-08-28 · 649314e205c5
- homepage: https://www.rplumber.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · d1d8632acd6d
- site_page: https://www.rplumber.io/articles/quickstart.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · b5170edfec23
- site_page: https://www.rplumber.io/news/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9090bc787bda
- site_page: https://www.rplumber.io/authors.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3c5e42c76cc5
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| rstudio/plumber | main | 70 |
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