R Observatory: Metrics for EDIutils version 3.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

EDIutils

3.0.1Package record

An API Client for the Environmental Data Initiative Repository

0packages depend

6.3Kdownloads / year

79.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Colin SmithCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A client for the Environmental Data Initiative repository REST API. The 'EDI' data repository https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/home.jsp is for publication and reuse of ecological data with emphasis on metadata accuracy and completeness. It is built upon the 'PASTA+' software stack https://pastaplus-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html# and was developed in collaboration with the US 'LTER' Network https://lternet.edu/. 'EDIutils' includes functions to search and access existing data, evaluate and upload new data, and assist other data management tasks common to repository users.

Changes in 3.0.1

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

Migrated the test suite and VCR cassette fixtures to the PASTA staging environment (https://pasta-s.lternet.edu), preventing test pollution on the production repository.
Enhanced entity and descendant tests to dynamically resolve entity IDs and derived package identifiers at runtime.
Added configurable request throttling (EDI_TEST_THROTTLE_DELAY, default 2s in CI) for live HTTP test requests to prevent HTTP 429 rate limit errors.
Configured VCR cassette mocks for read_data_package_archive().
Refactored test-only helper functions into tests/testthat/helper-test-package.R to keep package runtime namespace clean and modular.
Updated GitHub Actions CI workflows with sequential execution (max-parallel: 1), request throttling, and workflow_dispatch manual triggers.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("EDIutils", 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("ropensci/EDIutils")

Development version from ropensci/EDIutils. 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-ediutils

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-EDIutils

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-EDIutils

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: 2.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.0.1

READMEYes · 499 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 3.0.1Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 73
Examples that run: 0%71 never run
Exported functions with examples: 97%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,093 · ~17/day · ~526/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47130 days

1.4K90 days

6.3K1 year

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Also on342 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/ediutils ↗Organization: ropensci

10Stars

3Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

298Commits

2Commit identities

rr-packagerstatsecologyeml-metadataopen-accessopen-dataresearch-data-management

298 commits · Last activity 2026-08-19

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 50
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 22026-10-09 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/ediutils on 2026-10-18.

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 (2)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-03-27

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing EDIutils adds 11 packages (9 with compiled code, 4.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

curl httr jsonlite xml2utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr readr vcr rmarkdown roxygen2 testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Colin Smith

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2022)

Corinna Gries

Contributor

Jasmine Lai

Reviewer

Rodrigo Pires

Reviewer

Releases (8)

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Package metadata

First published: 2022-06-01
Total releases: 8 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 234 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("EDIutils")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 EDIutils version 3.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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