R Observatory: Metrics for DatastreamR version 2.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DatastreamR

2.0.4

Datastream API

0packages depend

6.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by LSEG (Datastream)First published 2024-05-131 releasesCRAN page ↗

Access Datastream content through https://product.datastream.com/dswsclient/Docs/Default.aspx., our historical financial database with over 35 million individual instruments or indicators across all major asset classes, including over 19 million active economic indicators. It features 120 years of data, across 175 countries – the information you need to interpret market trends, economic cycles, and the impact of world events. Data spans bond indices, bonds, commodities, convertibles, credit default swaps, derivatives, economics, energy, equities, equity indices, ESG, estimates, exchange rates, fixed income, funds, fundamentals, interest rates, and investment trusts. Unique content includes I/B/E/S Estimates, Worldscope Fundamentals, point-in-time data, and Reuters Polls. Alongside the content, sit a set of powerful analytical tools for exploring relationships between different asset types, with a library of customizable analytical functions. In-house timeseries can also be uploaded using the package to comingle with Datastream maintained datasets, use with these analytical tools and displayed in Datastream’s flexible charting facilities in Microsoft Office.

Install

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

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

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

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-datastreamr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-DatastreamR

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-DatastreamR

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,734 · ~18/day · ~556/mo

Releases R versions

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22830 days

1.2K90 days

6.7K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

httr jsonlite logger ini stringrmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

LSEG (Datastream)

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

LSEG (Datastream)

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.0.4Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2024-05-13
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 39 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("DatastreamR")

Format

(Datastream), L. (2024). DatastreamR: Datastream API (Version 2.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.DatastreamR

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DatastreamR version 2.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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