R Observatory: Metrics for ECOTOXr version 1.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ECOTOXr

1.2.5Package record

Download and Extract Data from US EPA's ECOTOX Database

0packages depend

5.2Kdownloads / year

83.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pepijn de VriesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The US EPA ECOTOX database is a freely available database with a treasure of aquatic and terrestrial ecotoxicological data. As the online search interface doesn't come with an API, this package provides the means to easily access and search the database in R. To this end, all raw tables are downloaded from the EPA website and stored in a local SQLite database doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.143078.

Changes in 1.2.5

Switched from using rappdirs to tools for locating user dir
Fixed websearch_comptox()
Redesigned logo
Improved warning, error and other messages
Corrected some typos
Some housekeeping of documentation and workflows

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ECOTOXr", 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("pepijn-devries/ECOTOXr")

Development version from pepijn-devries/ECOTOXr. 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-ecotoxr

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-ECOTOXr

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-ECOTOXr

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: 3.1 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.5

READMEYes · 474 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.2.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 24 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%21 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,916 · ~14/day · ~432/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

60330 days

1.4K90 days

5.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on101 r2u13 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

pepijn-devries/ecotoxr ↗Account: pepijn-devries

15Stars

2Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

181Commits

4Commit identities

databasedata

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 181 commits · Last activity 2026-07-09 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2.5.0001, ahead of CRAN 1.2.5 (checked 2026-10-11) · Discussions: 1 post

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 44
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-16 · 102026-07-07 · 15

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/pepijn-devries/ecotoxr on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-09

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

28 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ECOTOXr adds 54 packages (31 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, RSQLite 4.2 MB, readxl 2.1 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0RSQLite

Imports (20)

bit64 cli dbplyr dplyr (>= 1.1.4)httr2 jsonlite lifecycle (>= 1.0.4)purrr rappdirs readr (>= 2.1.4)readxl rlang rvest stringr tibble tidyr tidyselecttoolsunitsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

DBI htmltools kableExtra knitr rmarkdown spelling standartox testthat webchem

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Pepijn de Vries

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2021), Data contributor

Releases (13)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.2.5Latest
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2026-07-09 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
migrate_ecotox_path
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.4
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2025-09-24 · diff ↗
1.2.2
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2025-08-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.2.1
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2025-04-08 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2025-03-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
as_date_ecotox, as_numeric_ecotox, as_unit_ecotox, mixed_to_single_unit, process_ecotox_dates, process_ecotox_numerics, process_ecotox_units
1.1.1
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2024-09-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.9
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2024-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
%>%

added 2 exports
check_ecotox_build, check_ecotox_version
1.0.5
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2023-10-09 · diff ↗
1.0.3
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2023-08-21 · diff ↗
1.0.2
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2023-06-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.1
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2023-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
list_ecotox_web_fields, websearch_comptox, websearch_ecotox
0.2.0
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2022-11-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
%>%, as.cas, cas, get_ecotox_url, is.cas, search_ecotox_lazy, show.cas

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.1
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2021-10-05
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-10-05
Total releases: 13 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 403 KB

Appears in task views

Chemometrics and Computational Physics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("ECOTOXr")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.143078.

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 ECOTOXr version 1.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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