The blockr universe

blockr is split into two layers: infrastructure packages that frame the app (engine, layout, sessions, code export) and block packages that provide the actual building blocks users drag onto a board. Each layer spans three maturity tiers — stable on CRAN, in development, and experimental.

All packages are free and open source, released under GPL-3.0. Source for each package lives on GitHub (linked from the cards below).

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install.packages("blockr") pulls the whole stable stack in one step — the blockr meta‑package re‑exports the six CRAN packages below.

Infrastructure

The framework itself: engine, layout managers, session and code tooling.

Stable on CRAN

blockr.core

The engine: blocks, boards, reactivity, serialisation. Everything else is built on top of it.

blockr.dock

Docking layout manager — drag, dock and tab blocks like an IDE.

blockr.dag

Directed acyclic graph view of a board — visualise and navigate the dependency structure of your blocks.

In development usable

blockr.ai

AI assistant — configures exposed controls and explains data and outputs in plain English.

blockr.session

Session management — save, restore and share board state across users.

blockr.code

Export a board as idiomatic, runnable R code anyone can read.

Block packages

The blocks users drag onto a board: data wrangling, visualisation, I/O, and verticals.

Stable on CRAN

blockr.dplyr

Interactive dplyr and tidyr blocks — select, filter, mutate, summarise, pivot, joins, binds.

blockr.ggplot

Interactive ggplot2 blocks — scatter, bar, line, histogram, boxplot, facet, themes.

blockr.io

Read and write blocks — CSV, Excel, Parquet, Feather, SPSS, Stata, SAS, JSON, plus URL and upload modes.

In development usable

blockr.viz

Visualization blocks — interactive charts, summary and drilldown tables, KPI tiles, and cross-filtering.

blockr.dm

Relational data management blocks — visually inspect and join multi‑table datasets backed by dm.

Experimental will change

blockr.stats

Statistical test blocks — t‑tests, ANOVA, regression diagnostics.

blockr.admiral

ADaM derivation blocks — clinical data prep on top of admiral.

blockr.insurance

Insurance datasets and example workflows for the insurance vertical.

blockr.task

Task pipeline — long‑running, cancellable jobs inside a board.