R Observatory: Metrics for EML version 2.0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

EML

2.0.7

Read and Write Ecological Metadata Language Files

5packages dependsuggested by 3

16.6Kdownloads / year

64.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carl BoettigerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Work with Ecological Metadata Language ('EML') files. 'EML' is a widely used metadata standard in the ecological and environmental sciences, described in Jones et al. (2006), doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110031.

Changes in 2.0.7

update roxygen / docs for CRAN

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("EML", 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/EML")

Development version from ropensci/EML. 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-eml

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-EML

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.9 min · r-devel-windows-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 2.0.7

READMEYes · 768 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.7Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 26 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 56%10 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 84%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Creating EML HTML
Working with Units HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

16.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,361 · ~46/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

3.3K90 days

16.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on420 r2u2.9K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/eml ↗Organization: ropensci

100Stars

32Forks

47Open issues

2Open PRs

7Releases

1,024Commits

26Commit identities

metadata-standardemleml-metadatarrstatsr-package

1,024 commits · Last activity 2025-07-28 · +1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 87%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 112
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-19 · 982026-10-09 · 100

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/eml on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-11-15

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing EML adds 45 packages (28 with compiled code, 26 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (10)

xml2methodsdigest emld jqr jsonlite uuid rmarkdownutilsdplyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

knitr taxadb tibble testthat covr EML units htmlwidgets shiny shinyjs spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

1indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

camtrapdp ecocomDP metajam finch dataspice

Suggests, most downloaded first

EML geometa geoflow

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Carl Boettiger

Matthew B. Jones

Author

Jeanette Clark

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Mitchell Maier

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Bryce Mecum

Contributor

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor

Releases (11)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.0.0
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2019-04-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
eml_find, eml_locate_schema, eml_view, get_TextType, get_taxonomicCoverage

added 5 exports
as_emld, get_unit_id, set_responsibleParty, set_software, shiny_attributes

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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added 1 export
eml_view
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-20
Total releases: 11 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from FreeBSD in 2.0.0
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 97 KB / 1 file
Download size: 553 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("EML")

Format

Boettiger, C., Clark, J., Jones, M. B., Maier, M., Mecum, B., & Salmon, M. (2025). EML: Read and Write Ecological Metadata Language Files (Version 2.0.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.EML

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

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for EML version 2.0.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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