R Observatory: Metrics for DSOpal version 1.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DSOpal

1.5.0Package record

'DataSHIELD' Implementation for 'Opal'

0packages dependsuggested by 2

8.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yannick MarconCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

'DataSHIELD' is an infrastructure and series of R packages that enables the remote and 'non-disclosive' analysis of sensitive research data. This package is the 'DataSHIELD' interface implementation for 'Opal', which is the data integration application for biobanks by 'OBiBa'. Participant data, once collected from any data source, must be integrated and stored in a central data repository under a uniform model. 'Opal' is such a central repository. It can import, process, validate, query, analyze, report, and export data. 'Opal' is the reference implementation of the 'DataSHIELD' infrastructure.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("DSOpal", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("datashield/DSOpal")

Development version from datashield/DSOpal. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-dsopal

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-DSOpal

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-DSOpal

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.0

READMEYes · 86 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 57 (27 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%28 never run
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 2%

How these are measured

Downloads

8.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,697 · ~22/day · ~678/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

46130 days

1.5K90 days

8.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on648 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

datashield/dsopal ↗Organization: datashield

0Stars

2Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

78Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as LGPL-2.1 · 78 commits · Last activity 2025-11-05

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2019-11-28 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/datashield/dsopal on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-11-05

pkgdown site last built 2025-11-05

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing DSOpal adds 42 packages (24 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (5)

R >= 3.5opalr DSImethodsutils

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

dsROCrate dsBaseClient

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Yannick Marcon

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2020)

Becca Wilson

Contributor

OBiBa group

Copyright holder

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-11-05 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-04-27
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-27
Total releases: 8 / 6 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2.1)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 0.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 23 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("DSOpal")

Format

Marcon, Y., OBiBa group, & Wilson, B. (2025). DSOpal: 'DataSHIELD' Implementation for 'Opal' (Version 1.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.DSOpal

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DSOpal version 1.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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